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International News Title: Iran Claims to Have Broken Israeli Spy Ring Published: January 10, 2011 TEHRAN — Claiming to have infiltrated Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Monday that it had broken up an international network of agents linked to the assassination of an Iranian physics professor last year, state-owned media said. After a broad investigation, Iran succeeded in arresting “the main agents behind the terrorist incident and dismantle a network comprising of Israeli spies and terrorists,” state-owned Press TV quoted the semiofficial Fars news agency as saying. It said Israeli intelligence services “had used bases in certain European and non-European countries as well as Iran’s neighboring states in an attempt to achieve its inhuman and non-Islamic goals.” Those same “bases” had been “used in the assassination of Dr. Masoud Ali Mohammadi,” a physics professor at the University of Tehran who was killed by a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle outside his home in northern Tehran last January. Iran blamed Israel and the United States for the killing, whose motives have never been fully explained. Iran has frequently assailed Israel — its regional arch-foe — for seeking to disrupt its nuclear program. For its part, Israel has not ruled out military action against Iran’s nuclear sites if there is no diplomatic settlement to the international dispute over Iran’s nuclear intentions. In November, unidentified assailants on motorcycles launched separate bomb attacks against two other top Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran, killing one of them, Majid Shahriari, who was said by the Iranian authorities to be the manager of a “major” nuclear project. His wounded colleague, Fereydoon Abbasi, was believed to be even more important; he was on the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions list for ties to the Iranian nuclear effort. Those attacks also prompted Iranian accusations that Israel and the United States were responsible. On Monday, Press TV said Iran had inflicted “heavy damage on Israel’s information and security structures” and had discovered “very important and sensitive” information about Israeli Mossad spy teams. Claiming to have penetrated the Israeli security establishment, the Intelligence Ministry said the operation had involved “months of complicated measures and access to sources of the Israeli regime,” Press TV reported. Israel does not routinely comment on such assertions and there was no immediate response from the Israeli authorities on Monday. Iran’s nuclear program is the focus of profound disputes between Tehran, which says it wants to develop its nuclear capability for peaceful purposes, and other countries, including the United States and Israel, which suspect that Iran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb. Talks about the program are set to resume in Istanbul this month between Iran and six countries negotiating the nuclear issue — the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — along with the European Union.
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