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The Supreme Leader’s advisor: ‘Terror act shows weakness of enemy’

An advisor to the Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent terrorist attack, in which an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed, shows the weakness of the country’s enemies.
Ali-Akbar Velayati said on Saturday that the enemies take such measures whenever their anti-Iran plots fail.

The Supreme Leader’s advisor on foreign affairs also stated that such actions are totally against humanitarian values.

On Wednesday, an Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, was killed in a terrorist attack. In the incident, a motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car near a building of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.

Ahmadi Roshan was the deputy director of marketing at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility.

The terrorist attack took place shortly after Iran reached an agreement with the P5+1 group — Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States, and Germany — to hold negotiations in Turkey.

The US, Israel, and their allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and have used this allegation as a pretext to convince the United Nations Security Council to impose four rounds of sanctions on Iran.

They have also repeatedly threatened to launch a military strike against.

In November 2011, some US presidential candidates said operations should be carried out against Iran, such as assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, sabotage of Tehran’s nuclear program, and even a military strike on the country.

The calls for assassinations are not idle threats as a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated over the past few years. Professor Majid Shahriari and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi were victims of these acts of terror.

On November 29, 2010, Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi were targeted in terrorist attacks. Shahriari was killed immediately, but Abbasi, the current director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, sustained injuries but survived.

Iran says UN Resolution 1747, which was approved in March 2007, cited Abbasi’s name and identified him as a “nuclear scientist,” which helped the attackers target their victim.

According to reports, Ahmadi Roshan had recently met International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. Iran says the IAEA has leaked information about Iran’s nuclear facilities and scientists.

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