Iran makes arrests in scientist assassination
Iran makes arrests in scientist assassination
January 16, 2012
Source: Ria Novosti
Iran has arrested several people in the killing of a nuclear scientist last week that Tehran blames on Israel and the United States, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told state Al-Alam TV, Tehran Times daily said on Monday.
“We have discovered some clues and some arrests have been made,” Larijani told the Arabic-language broadcaster.
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a deputy director of Iran’s largest uranium enrichment plant, died in a car bomb explosion in Tehran last week. Local police sources said a passing motorcyclist attached a magnetic mine to the car Roshan was riding in.
Larijani did not give any further details on the arrests but vowed his country would avenge the death using “non-terrorist” tactics.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services of killing of the scientist.
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