(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Israeli operatives have killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists, including targeting them with operatives on motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the Israeli spy service, the Mossad, according to authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in their book published on July 9, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars.
Iran has long blamed the scientists’ killings on Israel, which has remained silent on the matter, but media reports speculated Israel had contracted killers to do the job.
“They don’t farm out a mission that is that sensitive,” so sensitive that Israel’s prime minister has to sign off on it personally, Raviv said. “They might use dissidents for assistance or logistics but not the hit itself. The methodology and training and use of motorcycles is all out of the Mossad playbook. They wouldn’t trust anybody else to do it.”
Raviv is a CBS News correspondent, and Melman is a well-known Israeli commentator and intelligence and military affairs correspondent for Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.
As a signatory to the non-proliferation regime (NPT), Iran has legal right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Iran's nuclear installations are being constantly monitored by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Aaency.
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