Tehran, January 09: The secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council has spoken out about Israel’s involvement in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, noting that Israel would never dare to openly attack Iran.
“The Israelis don’t have the courage to openly attack Iran. A military attack is hard for them, so instead they are working covertly,” Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview with Media on Saturday.
They are taking advantage of “international laws and regulations, and are actively engaged against Iran,” he noted.
Last November, unidentified terrorists attached magnetic bombs to the vehicles of Iranian university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi and detonated them.
Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife sustained minor injuries and were rushed to hospital.
A bomb attack killed another Iranian nuclear scientist in January 2010. Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by a booby-trapped motorbike in the Iranian capital.
The bombing took place near the professor’s home in the Qeytariyeh neighborhood of northern Tehran.
The Iranian government accuses Israel of carrying out the attacks.
A number of reports by European newspapers have verified the allegations.
Britain’s Independent says the assassinations are part of the relentless efforts of the Israeli intelligence community, Britain’s MI6, and the United States’ CIA to sabotage Iran.
The French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine quoted French intelligence sources as saying that the UK and the US collaborated with Israel’s Mossad in carrying out the assassinations.
——–Agencies