TEHRAN – The Iranian Intelligence Ministry officially announced on Thursday that the assassins of nuclear scientists Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan and Majid Shahriari have been arrested.

 

According to the ministry, the terrorist acts were engineered by Israeli spies and conducted by their mercenaries in Iran.

 

Ahmadi-Roshan, who received a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and was an official at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, was assassinated in Tehran on January 11, 2012. Majid Shahriari, who was a professor at Shahid Beheshti University, was assassinated in Tehran on November 29, 2010. 

 

In both incidents, terrorists riding motorcycles attached magnetic bombs to their cars.

 

“The unknown soldiers of Imam Zaman (a title used for Intelligence Ministry agents) were able to arrest the elements behind the assassination of martyr Shahriari, martyr Ahmadi-Roshan, and martyr Qashqavi,” the report said.

 

Reza Qashqavi was Ahmadi-Roshan’s driver.

 

The first terrorist act conducted against Iranian nuclear experts occurred on January 12, 2010 in Tehran when particle physicist Masoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated. A remote-control bomb attached to a motorcycle parked in front of his house was detonated just after he left his home.

 

The Intelligence Ministry said that after the first nuclear expert was martyred, it launched an intensive and comprehensive intelligence effort, and later these efforts were redoubled and expanded, and the ministry was able to gain intelligence supremacy over a number of Israeli intelligence and operational bases and stations and managed to identify a number of the Zionist regime’s spies and their mercenaries in Iran, and then it followed up clues in Iran and abroad, which finally led to the identification of key elements behind the assassinations and their arrest.