Source: RT
Iran is suspicious that UN agencies may have given away information
which aided the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi
Roshan on January 11.
Iranian deputy UN ambassador Eshagh Al Habib told the UN Security Council on Thursday that there was “high suspicion” that,
in order to prepare the murder, terrorist circles used intelligence
obtained from UN bodies. According to him, this included interviews with
Iranian nuclear scientists carried out by the International Atomic
Energy Agency and the sanction list of the Security Council, Reuters
news agency reports.
Officials observed that prior to the murder, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan had talked to IAEA inspectors, a fact which “indicates that these UN agencies may have played a role in leaking information on Iran's nuclear facilities and scientists."
Although
the UN Security Council’s list of sanctioned individuals does not
include Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, it does bear the name of Fereidoun
Abbasi-Davani, who was wounded in a Tehran car bomb attack in November,
2010.
Eshagh Al Habib accused the United Nations of failing
to guarantee the confidentiality of the information it obtains about the
Iranian nuclear program and nuclear scientists. UN spokesman Martin
Nesirky says he is currently investigating the claims.
Mostafa
Ahmadi Roshan, 32, who was overseeing Iran’s uranium enrichment
program, is one of five Iranian nuclear specialists killed in the last
two years. He was murdered by one or more motorbike hit men who
allegedly planted a magnetic bomb on his car or, alternatively, dropped a
bomb inside the car during the morning rush hour. Iran accused
American and Israeli intelligence of carrying out the murder – a charge
both countries deny.
The Security Council has imposed four
rounds of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear activities. Western
countries believe Iran’s nuclear program has military dimensions.
However Tehran maintains it is peaceful, and the IAEA has failed to
produce any evidence of concrete plans to develop a nuclear arsenal.
‘Iran should review relations with IAEA’ – MP
While
Eshagh Al Habib was mild and focused in his evaluation of the UN’s
possible role in the murder of the Iranian nuclear scientist, a senior
member of Iran’s Majlis, Zohreh Elahian, was far more outspoken.
The
member of Iran’s Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign
Policy announced on Thursday that it had been proven that IAEA
inspectors were transferring Iran’s sensitive data to the United States
and Israel, Iran’s television network Press TV reports. The legislator
added that Iran should review the way it interacts with the agency and
its inspectors as the current approach was unacceptable.
Zohreh
Elahian said that foreign intelligence agencies – America’s CIA,
Israel’s Mossad and the British MI6 – were responsible for the killing
of Iranian nuclear scientists and added that Iran would pursue such
terror acts through legal and international bodies.
