Expresso: Mossad behind Iran Nuclear Scientist’s Murder

The Expresso weekly wrote in an article that top Mossad officials gathered at the spy agency's headquarters in northern Tel Aviv and said the killing of Shahriari would be Mossad's last covert operation under its current director.

A British expert, who has recently authored a book on the "Israeli" intelligence apparatus, also says "Israel" was behind the operation to hinder Tehran's nuclear program.

Gordon Thomas told the British daily Sunday Times the director that Mossad agents were talking about was Meir Dagan who is about to retire soon after serving as Mossad chief for eight years.

All attacks carried out in recent years against individuals linked to Iran's nuclear program were organized by Kidon, the department of Mossad responsible for assassination and kidnapping, Thomas said.

Meanwhile, the Hebrew-language newspaper Yediot Aharonot has revealed that Kidon comprises 38 agents, including five women.

Operating out of a military base in the Negev Desert, all are in their twenties, and trained both as expert killers and as expert linguists: a number are fluent in Persian.

On November 29, unidentified terrorists attached bombs to the vehicles of Iranian university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi, and detonated them.

Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife sustained minor injuries and were rushed to hospital.