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Mossad kills Iranian scientists: Poll


Respondents to a Press TV poll have implicated the israeli spy agency, Mossad, as the main culprit in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.

According to the survey, nearly 47 percent of the 9,799 participants believe Mossad must be held accountable for the killings of Iran’s nuclear scientists.

The latest Press TV poll, released on Tuesday, also indicates that 27 percent of the respondents are of the opinion that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is responsible for the acts of terror as it publicized the names of Iranian scientists.

Meanwhile, an estimated 14 percent maintained that certain Western countries involved in talks with Iran (the US, Britain, France and Germany) are behind the assassinations.

Around 12 percent of those polled maintained that the Iranian government must be accountable for the killings of the country’s scientists as it insists on developing a nuclear energy program.

On January 11, an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to the car of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan near a college building of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran. He was immediately killed and his driver, who sustained injuries, died a few hours later in a hospital.

Ahmadi Roshan was a chemical engineering graduate of Iran’s prominent Sharif University of Technology and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility.

He was not the first Iranian nuclear scientist targeted by a terrorist attack.

In November, 2010, Majid Shahriari, another scientist, was killed in a terrorist attack and Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi, the current head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, sustained some injuries in another attack.

Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a scholar at Tehran University, was also assassinated by a booby-trapped motorbike in the Iranian capital in January 2010.

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