Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that "Zionist" methods were used in the
attack on a leading nuclear scientist, who was killed in a
bombing outside his Tehran home, a report said.
"One can see the level of enemy's grudge in the way he
was assassinated. The method of bombing was a Zionist one,"
the Mehr news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. It did not
elaborate.
The scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, died when a bomb
strapped to a motorbike was triggered by remote control as he
was leaving his home on Tuesday morning.
"He was a Hezbollahi and pious university professor
serving his people," Ahmadinejad said, using the term employed
to indicate a person's dedication to the Islamic republic's
regime.
"They enemies by killing the elite cannot take away the
knowledge from the Iranian nation," the president added.
Iranian officials have accused the CIA and Mossad, the
intelligence agencies respectively of the United States and
Israel, of having a hand in the bombing.
Angry mourners chanting anti-American and anti-Israeli
slogans buried the professor at a shrine in northern Tehran
today.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 21:36