Jan.13, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Iranian Majlis Speaker strongly condemned the latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear physics scientist, yesterday in Tehran and warned the US and Israeli agents who carried out such a terrorist action that it would certainly backfire against them. Ali Larijani furthermore underlined the necessity of extra vigilance by all people for the country’s national security, as reported by IRNA.

 

Yesterday, US Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Turner, denied his country’s role in the terrorist assassination of the Iranian professor Masoud Alimohamadi, but surprisingly he did not condemn the act. Mark Turner dismissed United States’ role in the assassination and called such allegation as funny and meaningless.

 

Dr. Masoud Alimohamadi was assassinated by a booby-trapped motorcycle near his home in northern part Tehran at about 7:30 in the morning, when he was about to leave for work. The bomb exploded close to Alimohamadi’s automobile, killing the professor and causing damages to surrounding buildings. A right-wing group associating itself with the former imperial Pahlavi regime, later claimed responsibility for the bombing. 

 

Iranian investigators and security officials however say evidences point to Israeli -US backed agents and organizations working against Iran’s national security to be actually behind the bombing.

 

The United States and Israeli on many occasions threatened Iran with measures that could halt or undermine the country’s nuclear development by any means possible. Iranian officials condemned the terrorist act but reassured those who committed the act that it would not affect Iran’s continuous progress in its indigenous nuclear program.