In a joint Iranian-Islamic Jihad news conference in Iran, Secretary of the Iranian National Security Council Ali Larijani called the report “a gross lie,” and Islamic Jihad's Secretary-General Ramadan Abdullah Shalah called it a “joke.”
The report originated in Maher, an Iranian news agency.
Asked about the purpose of his visit in Iran, Shalah said “Iran is a central and senior country and it helps all Muslims in the world, especially with regard to the Palestinian issue.” He added that he had come to update Iran’s leaders “of the latest developments in the occupied territories and the problems there and to ask for their help.”
In another Iran-related development, an American-operated radio station in Iran says Mossad agents assassinated a senior Iranian scientist who is employed in one of Iran’s nuclear installations. According to a report in Britain’s Sunday Times, “high quality” intelligence shows that the scientist was assassinated by Israel, using a mysterious gas poisoning technique.
The radio station, Radio Farada, reported that Ardashir Hasanpour, a senior Iranian scientist, had been employed in the nuclear facility at Isfahan, where hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is used for enriching plutonium at the Natanz site.
Regarding Iran's relations to Hizbullah, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai Al-Aam quoted Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an interview saying it was “no secret” that Iran is aiding Hizbullah by sending money and weapons through Syria.
The report originated in Maher, an Iranian news agency.
Asked about the purpose of his visit in Iran, Shalah said “Iran is a central and senior country and it helps all Muslims in the world, especially with regard to the Palestinian issue.” He added that he had come to update Iran’s leaders “of the latest developments in the occupied territories and the problems there and to ask for their help.”
In another Iran-related development, an American-operated radio station in Iran says Mossad agents assassinated a senior Iranian scientist who is employed in one of Iran’s nuclear installations. According to a report in Britain’s Sunday Times, “high quality” intelligence shows that the scientist was assassinated by Israel, using a mysterious gas poisoning technique.
The radio station, Radio Farada, reported that Ardashir Hasanpour, a senior Iranian scientist, had been employed in the nuclear facility at Isfahan, where hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is used for enriching plutonium at the Natanz site.
Regarding Iran's relations to Hizbullah, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai Al-Aam quoted Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an interview saying it was “no secret” that Iran is aiding Hizbullah by sending money and weapons through Syria.