Was Yasser Arafat poisoned with Polonium?

The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been assassinated with a lethal dose of the radioactive substance polonium, scientists have claimed.

Was Arafat assassinated by poisoning?

Arafat died in 2004 from a mystery illness, amid theories that he was killed at the hands of Israeli spy agency Mossad.

But a new investigation has concluded that a urine stain on Arafat's underwear had traces of Polonium-210 20 times the dose needed to kill a human, the highly radioactive substance which killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko six years ago. 

The 75-year-old's widow, Suha Arafat, has called for her late husband's body to be exhumed after the Al Jazeera investigation found the traces on clothes he wore in his final days.

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Iran hangs 'Mossad agent' for killing of N-scientist

Iran hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, state media said Tuesday.

Tehran has accused Israel and the US of assassinating four Iranian scientists since 2010 in order to sabotage its nuclear programme.

Twenty-four-year-old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran’s Evin Prison after being sentenced to death for the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Iran’s state news reported. It said he had confessed to the crime.

The announcement came even as the UN nuclear watchdog and Iran met for a second day Tuesday in Vienna and said another meeting was scheduled for next Monday. The discussions Tuesday were dubbed as being good.

[Via Indian Express ]

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