West blamed by Iran

Translated to English
 A new innocent victim of secularist fundamentalism: Martyr of the Iranian nuclear program, Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi. The rogue and thug regimes of US, Israel assassinate Iranian physicist to deny further progress of an independent nation, through the method they master the most: Terrorism.

Dr. Ali-Mohammadi, lecturer at Tehran University, was the first scientist to achieve a PhD in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He received multiple threats because of his support for the Islamic Revolution and efforts for the scientific development of Iran, but still carried on with his work.

Prepare to see how Western media trivializes the death of yet another innocent human being, whereas similar acts carried out by Iran against Western or Israeli scientist would have been an excuse for the beasts to drop dozens of nuclear bombs in an innocent nation.

Fellow Westerners refuse to understand they are dealing with a nation of people who take pride in martyrdom, against which they can't do anything.

West blamed by Iran as YET ANOTHER nuclear scientist is assassinated by magnetic car bomb in the street

• Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a director of Natanz uranium enrichment facility
• Fourth nuclear scientist killed in Iran in the past two years
• Nuclear plants in country have also experienced two 'mystery' explosions
• Tehran accuses Israel of assassinating chemistry expert to halt its nuclear programme
• Israeli military warns Iran to expect more 'unnatural events' in 2012

By David Williams
Last updated at 6:09 PM on 11th January 2012

Target: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan who was killed in Tehran today 

when two motorcyclists attached a magnetic bomb attached to a car

Iran has blamed the U.S. and Israel for the assassination of a university professor and scientist who played a key role in the country’s controversial nuclear weapons programme.
Two assassins on a motorcycle were said to attached a magnetic bomb to the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan killing him and a passenger instantly as they sat in the Iranian-assembled Peugeot 405 in northern district of the capital Tehran.
A 32-year-old chemistry expert and director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, Roshan was said to have been involved in the development of Tehran’s atomic programme.
The assassination had strong similarities to other executions in recent years of scientists linked to the programme and underlined the belief that a major covert operation is underway against it.
Iran has accused Israel’s Mossad, the CIA and Britain’s spy agencies of engaging in an underground “terrorism” campaign against nuclear-related targets, including at least three killings since early 2010 and the release of a malicious computer virus that temporarily disrupted controls of some centrifuges - a key component in nuclear fuel production.
All three countries have denied the Iranian accusations.
Yesterday Tehran pointed the finger at the US and Israel as being behind the latest ‘terrorist’ attack but promised it would not be a setback to the expanding nuclear programme.

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‘The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and the work of the Zionists (Israelis),’ Deputy Tehran Governor Safarali Baratloo was quoted as saying.

Assassinated: Chemistry expert Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed after magnetic bombs were attached to his car in Tehran

Plot: Two people on a motorbike pulled alongside the vehicle before attaching the bomb and riding away

Target: Tehran has blamed Israel for the death of Mr Roshan, the director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in the centre of Iran

First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi added that Israeli agents were behind the attack, but cannot ‘prevent progress’ in what Iran claims are peaceful nuclear efforts.
Israeli officials have hinted about covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement.
On Tuesday, Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a “critical year” for Iran - in part because of “things that happen to it unnaturally’.

Explosion: A cloth covers a blood stain on the road as onlookers watch police on Iran's state-run Al-Alam TV

Covert: A satellite image of a suspected uranium enrichment facility near Qom. The West has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons

Capability: A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was likely attempting to develop weapons

Roshan, a graduate of the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, was deputy director of commercial affairs for the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and in charge of purchasing and supplying equipment for the facility. Natanz is Iran’s main enrichment site.
The U.S. and its allies are pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment, a key element of the nuclear programme that the West suspects is aimed at producing atomic weapons.
Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as nuclear fuel but at higher levels, it can be used as material for a nuclear warhead.
Iran denies it is trying to make nuclear weapons, saying its programme is for peaceful purposes only.

Spate: Four scientists apparently involved in Iran's nuclear programme have been killed in the last two years

Defiant: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shakes hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega at the latter's swearing in ceremony in Managua yesterday. Ahmadinejad has insisted his country's nuclear programme is purely for peaceful means

Since December, Iran has held or announced a series of war games that included threats to close the Gulf’s vital Strait of Hormuz - the passageway for about one-sixth of the world’s oil - in retaliation for stronger U.S.-led sanctions.
‘Assassinations, military threats and political pressures ... The enemy insists on the tactic of creating fear to stop Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities,’ lawmaker Javad Jahangirzadeh said after yesterday’s blast.
‘Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran’s nuclear advancement,’ said Theodore Karasik, a security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
He said the use of magnetic bombs bears the hallmarks of covert operations.

Tensions: Type 45 Destroyer HMS Daring was sent to the Strait of Hormuz by the British Navy last week after Iran threatened to block it because of attacks on its nuclear programme