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Summary Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said CIA and Mossad were behind assassination of a nuclear scientist.
The CIA and Mossad were behind the abominable assassination of a nuclear scientist in Tehran this week, Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday in a message of condolence to the mans family.This cowardly murder, perpetrated by those who do not dare claim their abominable crime by accepting the responsibility, was committed like the other crimes with the planning or support of the intelligence services of the CIA and Mossad,Khamenei said in the message posted on his website.His accusation against the US and Israeli espionage services was the strongest yet by Irans regime following Wednesdays brazen killing of scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
