Irans atomprogram påstås at være fredeligt – men det er kampagnen mod det ikke
An Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, who worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, has been killed in a car bomb attack in north Tehran, BBC online reports Wednesday.
Iran says the attack was similar to the killings of three other scientists over the past two years and blaimed Israel and the US. Both deny any involvement.
Washington and its allies suspect Tehran of secretly developing a nuclear weapon but Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization described the killings as “a heinous act”.
The murder comes on top of a sophisticated cyber sabotage programme and two mysterious explosions at Iranian military bases, one of which in November killed the general known as ‘the godfather’ of Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
Regardless of who is behind these attacks, Iran is seemingly subjected to an undeclared campaign to slow down its nuclear programme.
Mr Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was a university lecturer who supervised a department at the Natanz plant, the semi-official news agency Fars reported.
Iranian officials said two men on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car during the morning rush hour and detonated it outside a university campus.
Mr Ahmadi-Roshan died immediately while his driver died later of his wounds, Fars reported. A third occupant of the Peugeot 405 was injured and taken to hospital.
A senior Israeli official described the attack as “revenge”: – I do not know who took revenge on the Iranian scientist but I am definitely not shedding a tear, military spokesman Brig Gen Yoav Mordechai wrote.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog recently confirmed that Tehran had begun enriching uranium up to 20 per cent at its underground northern Fordo plant near Qom.
The US said it was “a further escalation” of Iran’s violation of UN resolutions regarding its nuclear plans.
