Iran said on Monday it will sue Israel for the murder last year in Tehran of senior nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi.
Iran
said
on Monday it will sue
Israel
for
the murder last year in
Tehran
of
senior nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran's complaint against the Zionist regime will
be lodged to international bodies soon," Iran's acting foreign minister
and atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by state news agency
IRNA.
Salehi said
Tehran
had
"finished gathering evidences of the Zionist regime's involvement in the
assassination of the Iranian scientist." He did not elaborate.
Last week Iranian media reported that an alleged killer of Ali Mohammadi had
been trained in Israel and had been apprehended
Majid Jamali Fash, identified by Iran as "the main element" behind
Ali Mohammadi's murder, was quoted as saying on state television's website that
he was trained by Israeli military officers.
Jamali Fash said he was briefed about Ali Mohammadi and "practised bombing
in a base near Tel Aviv several times."
Iran
's
Intelligence Minister Heyder Moslehi said on January 11 that
Iran
had
broken up a cell working for
Israel
's spy
service, Mossad, and arrested 10 people, adding that Jamali Fash was one of them.
In January 2010, Ali Mohammadi, a professor of particle physics at the
prestigious
Tehran
University
, was
killed in a bomb attack outside his home.
Iran
blamed this on "mercenaries" in the pay of
Israel
and
the
United States
.
Iran
has
also accused the intelligence services of
Israel
, the
U.S.
and
U.K.
of
being behind bomb attacks against two top nuclear scientists on November 26.
Majid Shahriari, a senior scientist involved in
Iran
's
nuclear activities, was killed by a bomb placed against his car, while
Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, another nuclear expert, was wounded in a similar
attack.
Western governments suspect
Iran
's
nuclear programme masks a drive for an atomic weapons capability, an ambition
Tehran
has
steadfastly denied.
Israel
and
its ally the
U.S.
have
not ruled out a military strike against
Iran
to
stop its nuclear programme.
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