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153101
Sat, 12/11/2010 - 21:43
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Interior Ministry tasked to tighten security for Iranian scientists
TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (MNA) -- Interior Ministry has been assigned by President Ahmadinejad to provide protection for Iranian scientists, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar announced on Saturday.
Talking to reporters, Najjar said, “After the assassinations, an emergency meeting of the Interior Ministry was held with the attendance of (representatives from) security and intelligence organizations and by order of the president protecting the lives of the country’s scientists and intelligentsia were put on Interior Ministry’s agenda.”
On November 29, two prominent physicists were targeted by terrorists in two separate bombings. Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi Davani was injured in the attacks. The two academics were both on their way to work at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran when they were attacked. The police say that in both incidents, terrorists riding motorcycles attached magnetic bombs to the physicists’ cars.
Elsewhere in his remarks, he stated that a number of people who have been arrested in connection with the recent terrorist incidents have confessed that they had received training by CIA, Mossad, and MI6 on how to conduct terrorist operations inside Iran.
On December 7, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that a terrorist team in connection with the attacks had been arrested by intelligence agents.
However, the main culprits behind the assassination of the two Shahid Beheshti University professors have not been apprehended yet, Dolatabadi said.
Talking to reporters, Najjar said, “After the assassinations, an emergency meeting of the Interior Ministry was held with the attendance of (representatives from) security and intelligence organizations and by order of the president protecting the lives of the country’s scientists and intelligentsia were put on Interior Ministry’s agenda.”
On November 29, two prominent physicists were targeted by terrorists in two separate bombings. Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi Davani was injured in the attacks. The two academics were both on their way to work at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran when they were attacked. The police say that in both incidents, terrorists riding motorcycles attached magnetic bombs to the physicists’ cars.
Elsewhere in his remarks, he stated that a number of people who have been arrested in connection with the recent terrorist incidents have confessed that they had received training by CIA, Mossad, and MI6 on how to conduct terrorist operations inside Iran.
On December 7, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that a terrorist team in connection with the attacks had been arrested by intelligence agents.
However, the main culprits behind the assassination of the two Shahid Beheshti University professors have not been apprehended yet, Dolatabadi said.
