TEHRAN – It has been established that those arrested in connection with the assassination of Iranian academic Dariush Rezaiinejad had been involved in the killing and had been supported by the CIA and the Mossad, Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi announced on Sunday. 

 

“Having staged a reconstruction of the assassination, we became sure that the arrestees had been involved in the assassination and that they had carried out their activities with the support of the CIA and the Mossad,” Moslehi stated during a speech at a ceremony held to commemorate Rezaiinejad, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Tehran on July 23, 2011.  

 

Moslehi announced on May 6 that a number of terrorists involved in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists had been arrested but provided no further details. 

 

In his speech, Moslehi said, “The enemies and terrorists had chosen to assassinate Martyr Rezaiinejad by a shot from a Kalashnikov, which was different than the way other (Iranian) nuclear scientists had been killed, namely with a magnetic bomb, with the aim of misleading the country’s intelligence apparatus.”   

 

Thirty people had been arrested in connection with the assassination of Rezaiinejad, Moslehi said, adding, “Two terrorist networks had been carrying out their activities in the country in cooperation with and (based on) plans of (certain) intelligence agencies in the world and the region.” 

 

He added that the arrested people have made confessions, but, “given the fact that they had certain plans for the future, their confessions cannot be mentioned now.” 

 

The Iranian intelligence minister went on to say that Western intelligence agencies have even crossed their red lines in confrontation with the Islamic Republic and provide each other with intelligence. 

 

“The intelligence agencies of Mossad and CIA easily provide each other with intelligence with the aim of confronting the system of the Islamic Republic while this is the red line of intelligence agencies,” he added.   

 

Moslehi also stated that certain regional countries are helping Western and Israeli intelligence agencies, adding, “When we stated this issue, (those) regional countries got upset, but we have documentation that cannot be denied.”  

 

The Mossad is using regional intelligence agencies as a tool to take measures against Iran, he noted. 

 

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