Irán asegura que ha detenido a cuarenta supuestos espías en el último año

Teherán, 28 may.- Las autoridades de Irán han detenido en el último año a cuarenta supuestos espías acusados de colaborar en los asesinatos de varios científicos nucleares del país, informó hoy la agencia local Fars.

En declaraciones a los periodistas, el fiscal general y portavoz del Poder Judicial, Mohseni Ejei, recordó que al menos cuatro científicos nucleares iraníes han sido asesinados en los últimos años y agregó: "El Ministerio de Inteligencia, en colaboración con el sistema judicial, ha identificado y detenido a 40 espías".

Según Ejei, "ahora, algunos de ellos van a ir a juicio, incluido uno que presenta su último recurso".

El 15 de mayo de 2012, las autoridades de Irán ejecutaron a Mayid Jamali Fashi, condenado por actividades de espionaje para Israel y por el asesinato en 2010 del científico nuclear Masud Ali Mohamadi.

Posteriormente, en junio del año pasado, el ministro iraní de Inteligencia, Heidar Moslehi, aseguró que habían detenido a todos los supuestos implicados en los asesinatos de científicos nucleares iraníes.

Las autoridades iraníes han acusado al Mosad israelí, a la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) de EEUU y a los servicios secretos del Reino Unido (MI6), del asesinato de cuatro científicos relacionados con el programa nuclear iraní. EFE

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Iran announced in June 2012 that its intelligence forces have identified and arrested all terrorist elements behind the assassination of the country's nuclear scientists.

"All the elements involved in the assassinations of the country's nuclear scientists have been identified and arrested," Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement at the time.

A number of countries, whose territories and facilities had been misused by the Mossad-backed terrorist teams, have provided the Iranian officials with relevant information, the statement added.

Over the course of the investigations, all other elements behind the assassinations of the Iranian scientists Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Majid Shahriari and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan as well as Reza Qashqaei (Roshan's driver) have been apprehended, the statement read.

Some of the perpetrators of the assassination of Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi, the current head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, are among those arrested, the ministry added.

According to the statement, Iran's Intelligence Ministry has detected some of Mossad's bases within the territories of one of Iran's Western neighbors, which provided training and logistic support to the terrorist networks.

Earlier, Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi had announced that the country's security forces have arrested at least 20 terrorists behind the assassination of Iran's nuclear scientists.

Moslehi stated that the arrests were made following the identification of two terrorist groups and through multiple sting operations across the country.

Iran has so far arrested several suspects in relation to the assassination of its scientists.

Western and Israeli spy agencies, collaborated by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have assassinated several Iranian scientists in the last three years.

In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, terrorists killed a 32-year-old Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and his driver on January 11, 2012.

The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.

The assassination method used in the bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization - and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred.

Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011.