Tehran – Iran vowed Monday to take revenge on Israel and the United States for the slaying last week of a physics professor in a mysterious bomb attack, the official news agency reported.
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Iranian officials have blamed an exiled opposition group known as the People’s Mujahedeen, accusing it of acting on behalf of Israel and the US The armed opposition group and Washington have denied involvement, while Israel has not commented.
A week after Masoud Ali Mohammadi’s death, it remains unclear why the 50-year-old Teheran University professor would have been a target for assassins who left a bomb-rigged motorcycle outside his home on Jan. 12. Ali Mohammadi had no prominent political voice, no published work with military relevance and no declared links to Iran’s nuclear program, though his work included some aspects of nuclear theory.
“Rest assured that Iran will take revenge for the blood of martyr Ali Mohammadi from you,” Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said, addressing Israel and the US.
“Such a blind move, which is the result of acts by the Mossad, the CIA and enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s system, shows their weakness.” His comments were reported by the official IRNA news agency.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the assassination was carried out in a “Zionist style,” saying it showed their “grudge” against the Iranian nation.
Key figures among both Iran’s pro-reform opposition and hard-line government supporters have condemned the professor’s killing.
Ali Mohammadi had few apparent links outside the academic community.
He was not known to have any key roles in the opposition movement, although his name appeared on a university petition pledging support for pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi before June’s disputed presidential election.
Mousavi claimed he was deprived of the presidency through fraud, triggering months of street protests and a harsh crackdown by the authorities.
My god, he is soo pathetic! For all we know, one of his wives probably burnt his polo keshmesh (Persian rice dish) last night, and he blamed Israel and the U.S. for that too.
I say, bring it on. Israel should wipe this rasha from the face of the Earth.
They look to harm us either way. I don’t understand why he’s looking for an excuse.
Hashem yesrachem aleinu.
Time to take care of him with extreme prejudice.
They were behind the attack on the israeli convoy in Jordan.
… he said, right after detailing Iran’s plans for sending aid to Haiti.
Iran is a paper tiger. Thy would lose, and lose badly, in any face off with either the US or Israel. They fought for 8 years against Itaq and it was a draw!!! All they will ever have is possibly the bomb. That is why they must be prevented from developing one. Israel knows this. Watch and learn how this gets dealt with.
Watch this sicko before and after
He obviously was very important or he wouldn’t be so upset about it !!!
Ahmanajad, your beard is not trimmed, animals dont look like people!
I-am-a-nut-job probably killed him for supporting the opposition and the best way to deflect blame is to blame it on a Zionist conspiracy. I have to tell you the truth, I’m surprised that some Islamic site has not yet blamed the earthquake in Haiti on secret underwater joint nuclear test by Israel and the U.S., like they did the tsunami in 2004. But mark my words, it will happen and then it will it be carried by all the major networks, giving it some credability. You heard it here first