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| Israel behind killing of Iranian scientist: report |
| 2011-08-03 |
| [Dawn] The Israeli secret service Mossad was responsible for the liquidation last month of an Iranian scientist in Tehran, Germany's Spiegel Online news website reported. The killing of Dariush Rezaei-Nejad was "the first serious action taken by the new Mossad chief Tamir Pardo," according to an unidentified Israeli intelligence source quoted by Spiegel Online. Iranian press reports said Rezaei-Nejad was shot five times by unknown assailants as he and his wife were waiting for their child in front of a kindergarten in Tehran on July 23. His wife was maimed in the attack. The Iranian government blamed the United States and Israel for the attack, the latest in a series targeting Iranian nuclear scientists who are suspected by the West to be working on a nuclear weapon programme. Tehran denies it has such a programme and insists that its atomic activities are entirely peaceful. Rezaei-Nejad is believed to have worked on the trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons, Spiegel Online said in its report first published on Monday. |
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