Naija News

Leader of the Islamic
Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed
Ali Khamenei has condemned
the US and Israeli spy
agencies, CIA and Mossad, for
the recent assassination of an
Iranian nuclear scientist.
“This cowardly [act of] terror,
whose perpetrators and
plotters will never dare to
confess to their dirty and
hideous crime or accept
responsibility for it, has been
carried out by the planning or
support of CIA and Mossad
[spy] services, like all other
crimes of the network of
international state terrorism,”
said Ayatollah Khamenei late
on Thursday in a message of
condolence on the death of
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
The assassination attempt
shows that “the global
arrogance spearheaded by the
US and Zionism has reached a
deadlock in confrontation with
the determined, devout, and
progressive nation of Islamic
Iran,” the leader added.
Ayatollah Khamenei went on
to say that Iran's rapid
scientific progress is not
dependent on individuals but
is a “historic movement” and
arises from the “invulnerable
national resolve” of Iranians.
Insisting that the Iranian
nation will continue on its path
with determination, the leader
pointed out that Iranians will
not overlook the crime and
never stop efforts to bring the
perpetrators and those behind
the assassination to justice.
On January 11, an unknown
motorcyclist attached a
magnetic bomb to the
scientist's car near a college
building of Allameh Tabatabaei
University in Tehran. Ahmadi
Roshan was immediately killed
and his driver, who had
sustained injuries, died a few
hours later in hospital.
Ahmadi Roshan, a Sharif
University of Technology
chemical engineering
graduate and the deputy
director of marketing at iran's
Natanz nuclear facility, was
killed immediately and his
driver, who had sustained
injures, passed away a few
hours later in hospital.
The latest terrorist attack
comes as Iran has reached an
agreement with the P5+1 --
Britain, China, France, Russia,
and the United States plus
Germany -- to hold
negotiations in Turkey.
The US, Israel and their allies
accuse Iran of pursuing a
military nuclear program and
have used this allegation as a
pretext to sway the UNSC to
impose four rounds of
sanctions on Iran.
Based on these accusations,
they have also repeatedly
threatened Tehran with the
"option" of a military strike.
This is while in November
2011, some of the US
presidential hopefuls called for
conducting covert operations
ranging from assassinating
Iranian nuclear scientists to
launching a military strike on
Iran as well as sabotaging
Tehran's nuclear program.
The calls for assassinations are
not idle threats as a number of
Iranian scientists have been
assassinated over the past few
years. Professor Majid
Shahriari and Professor
Masoud Ali-Mohammadi are
among the victims of these
acts of terror.
On November 29, 2010,
Shahriari and Fereydoun
Abbasi were targeted by
terrorist attacks; Shahriari was
killed immediately and Dr.
Abbasi, the current director of
iran's Atomic Energy
Organization, only sustained
injuries.
Iran says as the UN Resolution
1747, adopted against Tehran
in March 2007, cited Abbasi's
name as a "nuclear scientist,"
the perpetrators were in a
position to trace their victim.
According to reports, Ahmadi
Roshan had recently met
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) inspectors, a
fact which indicates that the
IAEA has leaked information
about iran's nuclear facilities
and scientists.