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Tehran claims United States and Israel were behind attack designed to disrupt its nuclear plans
Donald Macintyre | Wednesday 16 May 2012 11:18
Majid Jamali Fashi was reported by Iranian state media to have confessed to blowing up one of its nuclear scientists, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi (AFP/Getty Images)
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Iran has hanged a 24-year-old man whom it accused of being an agent for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and of killing one of its nuclear scientists more than two years ago, Tehran's state media reported yesterday.
The execution of Majid Jamali Fashi at Tehran's Evin Prison followed his conviction last August for murdering a Tehran University professor, Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, in January 2010.
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Contribute Subscribe LOGIN Iran accused the United States and Israel of being behind the attack, but Washington denied any involvement. Israel routinely refuses to discuss such accusations, which have since been levelled over the deaths of three more scientists.
The most recent attack claimed the life of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, a deputy director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, who was killed in January this year by a magnetic bomb planted on his vehicle.
Iran's state media also recently announced that another "Zionist-regime-linked" conspiracy to murder an Iranian "specialist" had been foiled, with 15 people, including both foreigners and Iranians, arrested on suspicion of having participated in the alleged plot.
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It is unclear what role, if any, Professor Ali-Mohammadi had in what Israel and the West are convinced is Iran's effort to acquire a military nuclear capability. Iran's Atomic Energy Agency denied at the time that he had any involvement in the nuclear programme, which the regime insists is for peaceful purposes.
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The Tehran-based satellite channel Press TV said that Mr Fashi – believed to be an Iranian citizen – had confessed to receiving training from Mossad, of being given $120,000 (£75,000) to carry
out the killing, and of using forged documents, handed over in Azerbaijan, to allow him to travel to Tel Aviv.
The execution came amid talks in Vienna between Iranian diplomats and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is pressing for greater access by UN inspectors to documents, officials and sites which might shed light on the suspected military aspects of Iran's nuclear programme.
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These include the Parchin military complex where Western diplomats are concerned Iran may have conducted nuclear-relevant high explosives tests. Iran has repeatedly resisted requests to open up the site.
A significant improvement in access would be seen by the West as a sign of Iranian good faith ahead of the next scheduled big power diplomatic talks in Baghdad next week between Iran and the US, Britain, France, Germany Russia and China.
In a break in the discussions, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, sounded an upbeat note saying: "We had good talks. Everything is (on the) right track. The environment is very constructive."
Meanwhile in India, which along with China is the world's biggest importer of Iranian oil, officials agreed in talks with the US special envoy Carlos Pascual to continue reducing the volumes it buys from Tehran, but without giving a detailed timetable or target levels.
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