Iran Calls Physicist Killing ‘Terrorist Operation’
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the killing this week of a physicist working on the country’s nuclear program was a “terrorist” operation.
Mottaki, speaking to reporters today in Kuwait City, said “Western countries’ silence on the killing raises questions.” Iran has blamed the U.S. and Israel for Majid Shahriari’s death in the Nov. 29 bombing in Tehran. A second blast that day injured Fereydoun Abasi, a physicist from the same university. Another scientist was killed in the city in January in an attack Iran also attributed to the U.S. and Israel.