Israel agent details Iran assassination

An Israeli agent arrested in Iran over the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi says Tel Aviv places high importance on the elimination of Iranian nuclear scientists.

Majid Jamali Fashi, the self-confessed Israeli agent who carried out the assassination of Dr. Ali-Mohammadi, says he underwent extensive training in Israel before the operation.

26-year-old Jamali Fashi said in his confessions that an Israeli commander described to him how vital his undertaking was for Tel Aviv.

The Israeli commander "spoke with me in private, praised me and said that this was a very important operation with heavy costs. He said that many people are involved in the operation and that they rely on me. He said that if I am not successful all of these people will lose their lives," Jamali Fashi said in his confessions aired primarily on Press TV on Friday.

He further recounted various trainings he received in Israel and how he carried out the assassination of Dr. Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010.

Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by an explosive-laden motorbike in the Iranian capital on January 12, 2010. The bombing took place near the professor's home in the Qeytariyeh neighborhood of northern Tehran.

The late professor lost his life when the booby-trapped motorbike was blown off with a remote-controlled device.

Also on November 29, 2010, unidentified terrorists detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi. Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife survived the attack with minor injuries.