TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian security made a number of arrests in the case of the murder of a prominent nuclear scientist of country intelligence chief said Thursday.
Intelligence Minister Heiðar Moslehi said the arrests have given Iranian secret services "new information" about the people involved the deadly attacks which blames it on Western intelligence.
According to the Iranian authorities attached attacker on motorcycles drove magnetized bombs to the cars of two nuclear scientists like you in Tehran Monday, work killed in one and the other wounded.
Iran says the attacks are part of a covert campaign by Israel and the West to sabotage its nuclear program to suspect the United States and its allies aimed at the production of nuclear weapons - something Iran denies.
Officials say campaign includes the abduction of Iranian scientists, the sale of faulty equipment and planting a destructive worm known as Stuxnet, briefly halted last month brought Iran's uranium enrichment activity.
"A number of people were identified and arrested in connection with the two terrorist attacks," said Mr Moslehi depending on State TV website. He has not specified how many were arrested.
Mr Moslehi accused the Israeli Mossad spy agency, Britain's MI6 and the CIA of involvement in the attacks, and added that the assassination affect Iran's nuclear program is not. "The enemy must know that it get anywhere with such acts," he said.
The daring attacks - if you were the work of a foreign power - suggest that the stalemate between Iran and the West of Tehran's uranium-enrichment program has entered a new phase.
Iran's nuclear Chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Wednesday the murder a warning to the Iran was 6-7 December nuclear talks in Geneva between representatives of the Iran and six world powers, namely the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany.
But the hardliners daily Kayhan said the talks should discourage Iran and instead of revenge against the US, UK and Israel for their alleged participation in the murder of the Iranian nuclear scientist.
"It is discussions due to the recent terrorist crimes against our two nuclear scientists Iran right next week," he said.
The paper that is executed by a representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said there was no reason Israeli, American and British scientists and their nuclear facilities are sure if Iran nuclear scientists are killed and sabotaged its nuclear facilities.
He was attacked and was able to stop the car and directly with his wife, Wednesday, the man who survived Fereidoun Abbasi, said realized several Iranian news sites.
Mr. Abbasi appears to be the more senior of the two. He decision, works on a list of Security Council sanctions in 2007 of applied physics described him as a Department of Defense scientist linked to the Institute, closely with someone heading secret nuclear projects with possible military dimensions.
Iran has vowed to increase security for its nuclear scientists to protect future attacks.
Mr Salehi, Iran's nuclear Chief, said the two scientists lived already in protected housing complex but adequate security wasn't expecting been while you are driving.
Kayhan reports also Wednesday that Iranian police officer in discussions in Tehran Mehrabad airport a day earlier was killed. The paper said police suspect a group of people at Mehrabad airport, was that is used for domestic flights, and were to follow you if a policeman injured a suspicious fire and killing others open.
There was no indication of which attack was measured in the context of murder of Majid Shahriari but the scientists Iran increased security in its wake.
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