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10 January 2011
Last updated at 06:57 ET
The Iranian authorities have arrested a "network of spies" which they say was behind the assassination of a nuclear scientist in January last year, state television reports.
In a brief statement, the authorities said the network was linked to Israel's Mossad secret service.
Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed in a bomb explosion as he left his home in Tehran.
Iran blamed US and Israeli agents for the killing at the time.
Iran's intelligence ministry said Mossad had used bases in certain European and non-European countries as well as Iran's neighbouring states for the purpose of the assassination, as well as other activities, Fars news agency reported.
The ministry said months of complicated measures and access to sources in the Israeli regime led to the finding of "very important and sensitive" information about Mossad spy teams, which inflicted heavy damage on Israel's information and security structures, Fars reported.
'Absurd' Mr Mohammadi, a 50-year-old university lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on 12 January 2010.
At the time, Iran's state media said he had been assassinated by counter-revolutionaries, Zionists and agents of the "global arrogance".
Washington later dismissed the accusation as "absurd".
Although described by the Iranian media as a nuclear scientist, scientists in the UK and the US said, from his substantial body of published research, Dr Mohammadi was unlikely to have been working on Iran's nuclear programme.
They said his expertise was in another field of physics altogether - quantum mechanics.
There has been much controversy over Iran's nuclear activities.
Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes, but the US and other Western nations suspect it of seeking to build nuclear weapons.
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In a brief statement, the authorities said the network was linked to Israel's Mossad secret service.
Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed in a bomb explosion as he left his home in Tehran.
Iran blamed US and Israeli agents for the killing at the time.
Iran's intelligence ministry said Mossad had used bases in certain European and non-European countries as well as Iran's neighbouring states for the purpose of the assassination, as well as other activities, Fars news agency reported.
The ministry said months of complicated measures and access to sources in the Israeli regime led to the finding of "very important and sensitive" information about Mossad spy teams, which inflicted heavy damage on Israel's information and security structures, Fars reported.
'Absurd' Mr Mohammadi, a 50-year-old university lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on 12 January 2010.
At the time, Iran's state media said he had been assassinated by counter-revolutionaries, Zionists and agents of the "global arrogance".
Washington later dismissed the accusation as "absurd".
Although described by the Iranian media as a nuclear scientist, scientists in the UK and the US said, from his substantial body of published research, Dr Mohammadi was unlikely to have been working on Iran's nuclear programme.
They said his expertise was in another field of physics altogether - quantum mechanics.
There has been much controversy over Iran's nuclear activities.
Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes, but the US and other Western nations suspect it of seeking to build nuclear weapons.
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