Iran to announce Tehran hits findings

Iran’s Deputy Intelligence Minister Majid Alavi says the result of investigations into terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran will soon be announced.

“Valuable measures have been taken regarding the plots and blind attacks that enemies had organized,” Alavi said on Wednesday.

He said the measures had yielded promising results and that Iran would once again “disappoint” the enemy by foiling their plots and attacks, IRNA reported.

On November 29, unknown terrorists detonated bombs in the vehicles of Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi — both professors at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.

Shahriari was killed immediately, but Abbasi and his wife sustained minor injuries and were transferred to a hospital and later released.

Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a motorcycle approached Shahriari’s car and attached a magnetic bomb to the driver’s door of the car which exploded a few seconds later.

He said terrorists separately attached another bomb to Abbasi’s car and escaped, adding that the professor and his wife were wounded in the attack but later recovered.

“Carrying out blind attacks organized by foreign teams is not a big feat, but tracking these operations is complicated,” Alavi said.

Iran has blamed Israel and Western powers for the terrorist attacks, hinting at the possible connection between the recent remarks of Britain’s spy chief about Iran and the European Parliament’s new stance regarding an anti-Iran terrorist group.

On October 28, John Sawers accused Iran of pursuing clandestine nuclear activities and said spying is crucial to stop Tehran’s nuclear program.

“Stopping nuclear proliferation cannot be addressed purely by conventional diplomacy. We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons,” Sawers said.

In November, the European Parliament issued a declaration, urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The European Union took the MKO off its blacklist in 2009. The terrorist group has been on the US terror list since 1997.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The organization is also known to have cooperated with Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.