Yesterday they were blaming us...[Arab News] Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud
Short RoundAhmadinejad accused the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society on Wednesday of complicity in the murder of a nuclear scientist, days before talks aimed at defusing a nuclear standoff.
Scientist Majid Shahriari, killed in a bomb attack on his car, was buried Wednesday in a funeral attended by Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, who will meet the European Union's foreign affairs chief on Dec. 6 and 7 for talks.
No one has grabbed credit for the bombing, nor another similar attack on the same day, which Tehran has blamed on countries seeking to stop the nuclear program.
"Committing terrorist acts shows well that you do not have the intention to negotiate, but you want to show hostility toward the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the semi-official ILNA news agency.
"In these kinds of terrorist acts, undoubtedly the United Nations is in cahoots with Zionists."
A separate car boom at around the same time Monday as the one that killed Shahriari, maimed another nuclear scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, who is personally subject to UN sanctions because of his involvement in suspected nuclear weapons research.
Iranian state media said the attacks on the scientists were part of a Western campaign to sabotage its nuclear program. According to Iran, that campaign included the abduction of Iranian scientists, the sale of faulty equipment and the planting of a destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet.
Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Ali Abdollahi said "protection for academics will be pursued more seriously."