Tehran, January 15: A large group of Iranian university students have marched in the streets of capital, Tehran, to condemn the recent assassination of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
On the occasion of Arbaeen, the 40th day after Ashura commemorating the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia Imam, a group of Iranian students held a gathering in front of Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in central Tehran on Saturday to condemn the terrorist incident.
The black-clad demonstrators, holding portraits of Ahmadi Roshan and chanting anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans, then marched towards the home of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in central Tehran to express their condolences to the Leader.
Tehran has condemned the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, as well as the US and UK governments for their obvious roles in the assassination of Ahmadi Roshan.
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 UN Security Council 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.
——Agencies