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Iran's security forces arrested a group of individuals, who underwent trainings to commit terror acts, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dovlatabadi said today at a press conference, FARS news agency reported.
He said the arrested members of the terrorist network underwent trainings in one of the neighbor countries and according to their testimony, prepared to commit terror attacks against some persons in Iran.
"Despite the fact that perpetrators of the terrorist attacks against nuclear scientists have not been yet arrested, the testimony of arrested members of the terrorist network uncovered some evidence for the terrorist acts," Dovlatabadi said.
Iran's Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said on Dec.3 that individuals, who are responsible for the terror acts and took part in the murder of the nuclear scientist, have been arrested. "The terror network had planned extensively adding that the ministry could abort their future moves," he added.
An attack has been committed on two university professors. Cars, carrying the professors, were blown up Monday morning in Tehran. The blasts took place at between 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning, when professors jointly with their family members left home for work. As a result of the terror act, committed near the Shahid Beheshti University in the north of Tehran, one of the professors of the university Madjid Shahriyari died and his wife and another passenger seriously injured. Another professor Firudin Abbasi and his wife injured as a result of blast at the Artesh Alley. Both scientists worked in the field of nuclear technology of Iran. The list of persons, against whom sanctions are applied upon UN Security Council resolution 1747, also includes Firudin Abbasi.
Iranian officials have accused the United States, Israel, Britain intelligence and NATO of direct or indirect organizing act of terror on Nov. 29, directed against two Tehran professors.