‘The Sinister Mind’, directed by Mehrdad Khoshbakht, aired last weekend, has depicted a sinister plan to assassinate an Iranian nuclear scientist.
Here are some facts about how the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, sponsored another real terror attack back in November 2010.
Dr. Majid Shahryari, born in 1966, a professor of nuclear engineering, was assassinated on November 29, 2010.
Shahryari was a nuclear scientist and engineering PhD who worked with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Terrorists riding motorcycles planted and detonated a c-4 bomb on the professor’s car door whilst he was driving. He was instantly martyred. His fellow nuclear Scientist Fereydoon Abbasi, a professor at Shahid Beheshti University was severely wounded. Dr. Abbasi's wife was also hurt and is now a handicapped. The killers had attached bombs to the professors' cars and detonated them from a distance.
Tehran nuclear site was officially renamed after him after his assassination.
The terrorists all admitted that they had been trained in Israel. The training included military skills, motorbike riding, shooting, and self defense, as well as intelligence skills.
They had focused on bomb-making and detonation skills, to be able to produce and attach the bomb to the terror target’s car.
One of the terrorists, who was arrested, said he was sure the US was behind the Israeli-sponsored plot.
The terror gang’s leader admitted that Israel was afraid of Iran’s nuclear development, not the nuclear bomb.
The terrorists’ confessions also showed that they had been promised to be financially supported after the terror operation, and that they would be helped to flee Iran afterwards.
Two other Iranian nuclear scientists, Darioush Rezaeinejad and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, were also assassinated and martyred between 2010 and 2012.
Western intelligence services and U.S officials later on confirmed the Israeli connection of the terrorists, according to reports published by the Time, The Independent and The Globe and Mail, published between 2012 and 2013.
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