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Murder of nuclear scientist has enraged Iranians and their religious leaders

Anti-US Chants as Slain Iran Nuclear Expert Buried, abc News,  By ALI AKBAR DAREINI   TEHRAN, Iran January 13, 2012 (AP) Thousands of mourners chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian
officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

The assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan has raised calls in Iran
for retaliation against the U.S. and Israel, and an independent news
website Friday said Iran is preparing a covert counteroffensive
against the West.

Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium
enrichment facility in central Iran, was killed in a brazen daylight
assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic
bomb to his car Wednesday in Tehran. The killing bore a strong
resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian
nuclear program.
State TV showed thousands of people carrying Roshan’s coffin through
central Tehran before it was taken to a north cemetery for burial. As
it marched, the crowd chanted “death to terrorists.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on
all state matters, called Roshan’s killing a “cowardly assassination”
and accused the U.S. and Israel of being behind the attack. He vowed
Thursday that the perpetrators and those who ordered the attack would
be punished…..
The independent news website, irannuc.ir, quoted an unidentified
security official as saying Iran is preparing a covert
counteroffensive against the West in retaliation for the bomb blast.
It suggested the retaliation could include assassinations abroad.

“Iran’s intelligence community is in a very good position to design
tit-for-tat operations to retaliate for assassinations carried out by
Western intelligence services,” the official said, according to the
website. “Iran’s response will be extraterritorial and extra-regional.
It follows the strategy that none of those who ordered or carried out
(the attacks) should feel secure in any part of the world………”
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January 14, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international