“They seek two objectives. They want to intimidate our people and create some kind of security situation in the country. Through assassinations they also think they can eliminate our scientists for good,” Laleh Eftekhari said.
“Quite the opposite these measures only become yet another reason for many young students to follow suit,” she stressed.
Iran lost one of its scientists to a terrorist attack on Wednesday, after an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to the vehicle of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan near Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.
The Iranian expert was killed instantly and his driver, who sustained injuries, died a few hours later in a hospital.
Ahmadi Roshan was a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.
“As maintained by the Leader [Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei] we have chosen a scientific path that has its costs. Our enemies will not sit and watch our progress, especially if are going to become a role model for others,” a Sharif University student who was attending Ahmadi Roshan's funeral said on Friday.
In November 2011, some of the US presidential hopefuls openly called for conducting covert operations ranging from assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists to launching a military strike on Iran as well as sabotaging Tehran's nuclear program.
The assassination calls have been anything but idle threats as a number of Iranian scientists have been killed in cold blood over the past few years. Professor Majid Shahriari and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi are among the victims of these acts of terror.
On November 29, 2010, Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi were targeted by terrorist attacks. Shahriari was killed immediately and Dr. Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, sustained injuries.
Iran's Foreign Ministry blasted on Friday the US and UK governments for their obvious roles in assassinating the Iranian scientist in two strongly-worded letters of protest to the two countries.
"The Islamic Republic reserves the right to follow up on the issue accordingly," Iran's Foreign Ministry said.
Source: www.presstv.com
