The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei: ‘Terror Attack on Iranian Scientists Unable to Stop Iran’s Progress’

The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei blamed the CIA and Mossad, israel’s intelligence agency, for the recent killing of an Iranian scientist, but meantime underlined that terror attacks cannot halt or undermine the country’s progress.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, who was martyred Wednesday, was the third Iranian nuclear scientist to be killed by a bomb placed underneath his car in the past two years. A fourth survived a similar assassination attempt.

Roshan’s death shows that “the global arrogance spearheaded by the US and Zionism has reached a deadlock in confrontation with the determined, devout and progressive nation of Islamic Iran,” the Supreme Leader said in a message released to mark the martyrdom of the Iranian university professor and a deputy director at Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site.

Those responsible will not own up, the Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said, but the attack “has been carried out by the planning or support of CIA and Mossad [spy] services, like all other crimes of the network of international state terrorism”.

The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei ended his message of condolence with a warning. “We shall persist in punishing the perpetrators of this crime, as well those supporting them behind the scenes.”

Other Iranian officials also blamed the killings on israel and the United States.