Dubai: Iran's spy chief accused German and French intelligence agencies on Friday of involvement in assassinations of its nuclear scientists, sticking to a hard official line as sanctions imposed over its disputed atomic ambitions bite harder.
The Islamic Republic has previously accused Israel, the United States and Britain of plotting the killings to set back its uranium enrichment programme, which Western powers suspect is being used to develop nuclear weapons capability.
Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi spread the blame to France and Germany, after days of hawkish rhetoric and missile tests by Tehran that helped push benchmark Brent crude oil prices above $100 for the first time since June.
"In these two networks (involved in the assassinations) we saw connections with the information services in Germany, France, Britain, Israel, the United States and regional intelligence agencies," the state news agency IRNA quoted Moslehi as saying. He did not name the other countries....
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05:04 AM, Jul 07, 2012
Dubai: Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being sentenced to death in August last year for the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Iran's state news agency quoted the central prosecutor's office...
02:14 PM, May 15, 2012
Lahore: Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has expressed his willingness to contest elections while suggesting the formation of a government of technocrats because politicians have failed to deliver good governance. Khan, 76, made the remarks while addressing students at the Punjab University on Wednesday. Khan has been accused of running proliferation network and providing nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and others. He advised PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif...
01:49 PM, May 03, 2012
United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist, saying terrorist action against anyone is not acceptable. Conveying Ban's response to the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, UN Deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters here "any terrorist action or assassination of any people, whether scientist or civilian, is to be strongly condemned". Ban made the comments to reporters during his current trip...
01:02 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Tehran: US allies in Asia and Europe voiced support on Thursday for Washington's drive to cut Iran's oil exports, though fear of self-inflicted economic pain is curbing enthusiasm for an embargo that a defiant Iran says will not halt its nuclear programme. The Speaker of Iran's Parliament Ali Larijani said Iran's nuclear programme is also too strong to be derailed by assassinations of nuclear scientists, a day after the fourth...
03:06 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Tehran: An Iranian nuclear scientist was blown up in his car by a motorbike hitman on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to blame Israeli and US agents but insist the killing would not derail a nuclear programme that has raised fears of war and threatened world oil supplies. The fifth daylight attack on technical experts in two years, the killer's magnetic bomb delivered a targeted blast to the door of 32-year-old Mostafa...
01:38 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Tehran: An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb placed on his car on Wednesday in an attack Tehran's deputy governor blamed on Israel, raising the diplomatic temperature in a stand-off with the West over Iran's nuclear programme. The bombing, which a city official said was similar to attacks a year ago on nuclear scientists in Iran, came as the United States sought to persuade a sceptical China to...
03:49 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Washington: A US arms control expert has made the astonishing claim that India may have been the mysterious fourth customer of Pakistan's notorious nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, dubbed father of Islamabad's nuclear bomb. Journalist Joshua Pollack, a US policy wonk who has done work on nuclear proliferation, makes the assertion of all places in Playboy that Khan "provided the shortcut to a nuclear weapon" to India besides Iran, Libya...
09:16 PM, Dec 22, 2011
The Lahore High Court ruled on Friday that Khan was a free man and could travel as he wished. ...
04:35 PM, May 28, 2010
S Ananthanarayanan, a Scietific Officer at the IGCAR, had gone missing since February 15. ...
10:36 AM, Feb 26, 2010
He made those startling disclosures in a letter written to his dutch wife in 2003. ...
09:15 PM, Sep 21, 2009
A student alleged Khan has copied paragraphs for writing his columns. ...
12:40 PM, Aug 27, 2009
Loknath Mahalingam missing since Monday, say police. ...
11:55 PM, Jun 13, 2009
Nuclear scientist Lokanath Mahalingam missing for five days. ...
01:43 PM, Jun 12, 2009
Mahalingam went for his morning jog on June 8 and did not return. ...
08:58 AM, Jun 12, 2009
A Q Khan was pardoned by former Pakistani President Musharraf. ...
03:48 PM, Mar 13, 2009
The report says Israel is doing it with Washington's approval. ...
04:28 PM, Feb 18, 2009
This because of concerns expressed by the United States and the UK. ...
12:54 AM, Feb 10, 2009
al-Qaeda no 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohd told US sources in 2003 of bomb plot. ...
06:17 PM, Feb 09, 2009
Shah Mehmood Qureshi says Khan's release is not an executive decision. ...
07:52 PM, Feb 08, 2009
