Source: Irish Times
Iranian state television said today Tehran had evidence Washington
was behind the latest assassination of one of its nuclear scientists.
In
the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb was attached
to the door of 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan's car during the
Wednesday morning rush-hour in the capital. His driver was also killed.
The United States has denied involvement in the killing and condemned it. Israel has declined to comment.
"We
have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was
planned, guided and supported by the CIA," the Iranian foreign ministry
said in a letter handed to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, state TV
reported.
"The documents clearly show that this terrorist act was carried out with the direct involvement of CIA-linked agents."
The
Swiss Embassy has represented US interests in Iran since Tehran and
Washington cut diplomatic ties shortly after the 1979 Islamic
revolution.
State TV said a "letter of condemnation" had also been
sent to the British government, saying the killing of Iranian nuclear
scientists had "started exactly after the British official John Sawers
declared the beginning of intelligence operations against Iran".
In
2010, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Sawers said one
of the agency's roles was to investigate efforts by states to build
nuclear weapons in violation of their international legal obligations
and identify ways to slow down their access to vital materials and
technology.
Tehran has urged the UN Security Council and
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to condemn the latest killing, which
Tehran says is aimed at undermining its nuclear work, which the West and
Israel say is aimed at building bombs. Tehran says its nuclear
programme is purely civilian.
Tension has mounted between Iran and
the West as the United States and European Union prepare measures aimed
at imposing sanctions on the Iran's oil exports, its economic
lifeblood.
The United States and Israel have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve the nuclear dispute.
