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    Iran says CIA behind nuclear scientist's killing

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media reported.

    Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a brazen daylight assassination Wednesday when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car in the Iranian capital. The killing bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program, and has prompted calls in Iran for retaliation against those deemed responsible.

    The IRNA state news agency said Saturday that Iran's Foreign Ministry has sent a diplomatic letter to the U.S. saying that it has "evidence and reliable information" that the CIA provided "guidance, support and planning" to assassins "directly involved" in Roshan's killing.

    The U.S. has denied any role in the assassination.

    Iran delivered the letter to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which looks after U.S. interests in the country. Iran and the U.S. have had no diplomatic relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

    IRNA also reported that Iran delivered a letter to Britain accusing London of having an "obvious role" in the killing. It said that a series of assassinations began after British intelligence chief John Sawers hinted in 2010 at intelligence operations against the Islamic Republic.

    British media have quoted Sawers as saying that intelligence-led operations were needed to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

    Britain's Foreign Office has condemned the killing of civilians. Israeli officials, in contrast, have hinted at covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement.

    The killing has sparked outrage in Iran, and state TV broadcast footage Saturday of hundreds of students marching in Tehran to condemn Roshan's death and calling for the continuation of the country's disputed nuclear program.

    The U.S. and its allies fear Iran's program aims to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charges, and says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

    In the clearest sign yet that Iran is preparing to strike back for Roshan's killing, Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, the spokesman for Iran's Joint Armed Forces Staff, was quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency Saturday as saying that Tehran was "reviewing the punishment" of "behind-the-scene elements" involved in the assassination.

    "Iran's response will be a tormenting one for supporters of state terrorism," he said, without elaborating. "The enemies of the Iranian nation, especially the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime, or Israel, have to be held responsible for their activities."

    Jazayeri also accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of being partially to blame, saying that the U.N. nuclear watchdog made public a list of Iranian nuclear scientists and officials that "has provided the possibility of their identification and targeting by spy networks."

     
    • 1  •  4 mths ago
      Great, now we have to worry about BLOWBACK. With our open borders does anyone think that Iran hasn't already penetrated our borders?
      • cynical1 4 mths ago
        Well, yes but now they're at least a little nervous. They have to watch their backs.
    • J M  •  Arrington, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      I'm guessing they are blaming the US because the assailants were smart enough to use magnets instead of simply strapping the bomb to their waist.
      • BAS 4 mths ago
        Brilliant.
      • KG 4 mths ago
        Absolutely Brillant.
      • Michael 4 mths ago
        lol
    • James Jay  •  4 mths ago
      Hmmmm, I see "evidence and reliable information" that Iran provided "guidance, support and planning" to assassins "directly involved" in the Afghanistan war.
      • johnsmith 4 mths ago
        Yes Jimmy, Kinda like we would support Mexico or Canada If outsiders invaded them.
      • James Jay 4 mths ago
        That doesn't make sense Johnnie
    • friver  •  Camden, New Jersey  •  4 mths ago
      The US should just act stupid and deny all allegations to the assassination just as much Iran acts stupid and deny all allegations to a nuclear weapon program
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        thats the point lmfao......
      • martin e 4 mths ago
        it's only for peaceful means
      • Camillon 4 mths ago
        how about ignore it
    • Ebodold  •  4 mths ago
      lol, of course they would say that.
    • Injun  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Dammit, they guessed!
    • Sweet  •  Sunnyvale, California  •  4 mths ago
      They'll blame the US, but a couple days earlier Ahmadinejad dropped by the nuclear bomb factory and told the scientist he "didn't look well" - and you know what it means when a dictator tells you that. Sorta like a mafia don kissing your cheek and saying "don't worry."
      • Blaze 4 mths ago
        That Ahmadinhandjob is a fruitcake! Needs to be urinated on!
      • fickle fate 4 mths ago
        daily!
    • Joshua Ray  •  4 mths ago
      I thought they already determined it was Mossad, now they're saying CIA and have also accused Britain. It's like their just pointing fingers grasping for something.
    • Jamil Baroody  •  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia  •  4 mths ago
      Gulf Arabs are not pleased with the threat Iran will pose to them either, they have a very good motivation to go after Iranian scientists. It could be a Russian hit too, Moscow is within range of Iran's ballistic missiles, forget what Russians say officially.
    • Original Patriot Neoconri ...  •  Austin, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Amanutjob needs to S T F U!
    • Country Commentator  •  Union City, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      Iran whips up all this frenzy to unite Iranians against an imaginary foreign threat while admitting that the nuclear program would be unaffected by the assassination. If Mossad, The CIA or MI6 were involved they would make it count, it wouldn't be so easy to work around the loss of the scientist. It's likely an internal psychological control plot carried out by the Iran regime to keep their people united behind them.
    • garth  •  Syracuse, New York  •  4 mths ago
      yesterday it was the mossad. well cia or mossad, i would just like to thank you for a job well done. the thought of these idiots with nuclear weapons is frightening.
    • Rhoda  •  West Chicago, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      I think those Iranian leaders have been watching too many hollywood movies!
    • spotted owl  •  4 mths ago
      Well. they wouldn't accuse China would they?
    • Cody  •  4 mths ago
      I don't doubt we helped with a little intel to whoever did it.. But i highly doubt we were the ones who actually planted the bomb..
    • American  •  Pompano Beach, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Or, more likely he committed suicide to avoid internal damnation for his desecrations against humanity and his creator, and example for all Iranian leaders to follow, before it’s too late.
    • h  •  4 mths ago
      ok Batman and Robin bring your cia harley spy drone bike home, nutjob is on to you

      Nutjob don't mess with our secret cia spys....we will get you next
    • MaDD Man  •  4 mths ago
      From my earlier post from a related article.......

      Question: What happens when an asset has served it's purpose and becomes a liability?
      No one finds it odd this happens when Ahmadinejad is out of the country?

      Just like the Crime Boss/Mafia movies, When the man has done his job and there is now fear he'll talk .....eliminate the threat.

      I said before this regime is going to do something to get the people to rally behind them.
      They know the people want to overthrow them and see them gone more then anyone else does.
    • TOMMY  •  Tampa, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      i would lke one of you dumb people to tell me one thing the iranians have done to this country that would justify a war
    • Vik  •  Rohnert Park, California  •  4 mths ago
      Tommy, could you tell to me, not a redneck american I am, what Iran did to us? Can you list all those bad things you are talking about? Do you even know why you dislike Iran so much? Do you know that Al Qaeda is Sunni and Iranians are Shia? That Al Qaeda would prefer to kill all Shias before anybody else? Do you know that US created the leader of Al Qaeda? Stop dreaming, start thinking!
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