Terrorists involved in assassinations of Iranian scientists arrested

TEHRAN,May 6 (MNA) – Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi announced on Sunday that a number of terrorists involved in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists had been arrested. He also said that intelligence forces have recently arrested a number of drug kingpins. Moslehi did not give more details about the arrests. Iranian nuclear scientists and academics have been the targets of assassination over the past few years, and the country’s officials maintain that intelligence agents of Israel’s Mossad are behind the killings, the latest of which was the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, a graduate of Sharif University of Technology in chemical engineering and an official at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, who was assassinated in Tehran on January 11. On July 23, 2011, Dariush Rezaiinejad, a university professor, was killed in a terrorist attack in Tehran. On November 29, 2010, two prominent physicists were targeted by terrorists in two separate bombings. Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi, who is the current director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was injured in the attacks. On January 12, 2010, Iranian elementary-particle physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated in a bomb attack.