terça-feira, 30 de novembro de 2010

In Iran, anger over strikes on scientists


(CNN) -- Iranian officials, outraged over attacks against two nuclear scientists, say they suspect Israel and Western countries were responsible for incidents that Iran continues to investigate.
"The main suspects are those Western countries that claim to advocate human rights but use it as a political tool to exert pressure on other countries," said Ramin Mehmanparast, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, according to Iran's state-run Press TV. "All those countries that are threatening the Islamic Republic of Iran ... are the main suspects behind such incidents".
Assailants on motorcycles attached bombs to cars carrying Majid Shahriyari and Fereydoun Abbasi on Monday. Shahriyari died but Abbasi and his wife escaped with minor injuries. Shahriyari's wife and driver were injured.
The two were nuclear physics professors at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, according to Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency.
The Institute for Science and International Security, a non-profit group in the United States focused on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, also identified the two as nuclear scientists. CNN