REMOVING IRAN’S NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS
AMERICAN officials confirmed in February that Israel had been funding and training Iranian dissidents to assassinate nuclear scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear programme.
The claim has already been levelled by the Iranian government who believe that The Mossad have been arming dissidents with the terrorist organisation the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK).
In January, Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, a chemistry expert, was killed in a brazen daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car in Tehran.
In January 2010, nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by remote-controlled bomb in Tehran.
And in November, two car bomb blasts killed a nuclear scientist and wounded another in the capital.
Physicist Darioush Rezai, 35, was shot dead by gunmen in eastern Tehran last July after being linked to the nuclear programme.
The People’s Mujahedin has been named a terror organisation both by the US and Iran.
It was accused of being responsible for the deaths of American servicemen and citizens in the 1970s and 80s.
But supporters of MEK are pressing the Obama administration to recognise it as the “legitimate opposition” to the Iranian government after a campaign to change the image of the group and portray it as Washington’s ally in confronting Tehran.
Israel, thought to hold the Middle East’s only atomic weapons, has warned Iran against pursuing its nuclear research and development.