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Iran accuses CIA as scientist killed
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Twin blasts in Iran's capital killed a top nuclear scientist and maimed another today, with Tehran swiftly blaming the CIA and Mossad for the attacks apparently carried out by men on cycle of violences.Slain scientist Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived the attack, were senior figures in Iran's nuclear programme, which the West suspects of having military aims. Tehran denies the charge. Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedi-nia said men on cycle of violences attached bombs to the windows of the scientists' cars in different parts of the capital as they made their way to work. The bombs went kaboom!seconds later. "Dr Shahriari was killed and his wife and driver were maimed. Dr Abbasi and his wife have been injured," he was quoted as saying in media reports. Iranian leaders accused the US and Israeli intelligence services, the CIA and Mossad, of killing the two who were also professors at Tehran's prestigious Shahid Beheshti University. "One can undoubtedly see the hands of Israel and Western governments in the liquidation which unfortunately took place," President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad told a news conference. Mr Ahmadinejad's office said in an earlier statement that "the Zionist regime this time shed the blood of university professor Dr Majid Shahriari to curb Iran's progress." Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the "Mossad and the CIA are the enemies of Iranians" whose "desperate terrorist act against the two academics shows their weakness and inferiority." Posted by: Fred 2010-11-30 |
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