Iran will find assassins who killed nuclear scientist

The Iranian cabinet has condemned the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Tehran and declared that the Islamic Republic is determined to arrest the culprits behind the terrorist attack.

“In line with the president’s decree, intelligence and security bodies are using all their capabilities to identify and arrest those behind the crime and to reveal their foreign supporters to world public opinion,” IRNA quoted the cabinet as saying in a statement issued on Tuesday, referring to a decree issued by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

An Iranian nuclear physicist was killed by a remote-controlled bomb attack in the Iranian capital on Tuesday.

Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at the University of Tehran and a staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution, was killed when a booby-trapped motorbike exploded.

The professor was killed in front of his home in the Qeytariyeh neighborhood in northern Tehran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Iran has found traces of US and Israeli involvement in the assassination of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi.