Iran speaker accuses Israel, CIA of killing scientist
Thursday, 14 January 2010
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP): Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator, accused intelligence agents of the United States (US) and Israel Wednesday of plotting a bombing which killed a top atomic scientist.
In an angry address to Iran's conservative-dominated parliament, Larijani accused US President Barack Obama of state terrorism over the assassination of the scientist.
"Such filthy actions are easy to carry out but such adventurism will do you no good," the ISNA news agency quoted Larijani as saying in reference to Obama.
"You have practically promoted acts of terrorism."
Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at prestigious Tehran University, was killed on Tuesday morning by a bomb strapped to a motorcycle in the capital's well-to-do northern suburbs.
Neither the police nor the intelligence services have yet reported any leads in their investigation into the murder.
But Larijani implicated the US Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's Mossad.
Islamist students and the volunteer Basij militia condemned the killing of Ali Mohammadi, who they described as "a Basiji professor."
In an angry address to Iran's conservative-dominated parliament, Larijani accused US President Barack Obama of state terrorism over the assassination of the scientist.
"Such filthy actions are easy to carry out but such adventurism will do you no good," the ISNA news agency quoted Larijani as saying in reference to Obama.
"You have practically promoted acts of terrorism."
Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at prestigious Tehran University, was killed on Tuesday morning by a bomb strapped to a motorcycle in the capital's well-to-do northern suburbs.
Neither the police nor the intelligence services have yet reported any leads in their investigation into the murder.
But Larijani implicated the US Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's Mossad.
Islamist students and the volunteer Basij militia condemned the killing of Ali Mohammadi, who they described as "a Basiji professor."