Iranian videogame rescues nuclear boffins

20 July 2007

[Associated Press, 16 July] A videogame simulating an attempt to rescue two Iranian nuclear experts kidnapped by the US military and held in Iraq and Israel has been produced by an Iranian student group. In Rescue the Nuke Scientist, US troops capture a husband-and-wife team of nuclear boffins during a pilgrimage to Karbala, a holy site for Shiite Muslims in central Iraq. Game players take on the role of Iranian security forces carrying out a mission code-named The Special Operation, which involves penetrating fortified locations to free the nuclear scientists, who are moved from Iraq to Israel. The Union of Students Islamic Association said that its game was a response to a US-based company's Assault on Iran game, which depicts a US attack on Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility.

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