Iran dismisses Israel's espionage allegations as 'baseless'

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham on Tuesday categorically denied Tel Aviv's claims about Iran's involvement in alleged spying activities in Israel. Speaking in a weekly press briefing, Afkham rejected the Zionist regime's claims on the capturing of an Iranian spy, and said the Zionists are pursuing worn-out scenarios. She said the world press and commentators regarded the claims as a Tel Aviv attempt to get out of global isolation. The Israeli claim has so far proved baseless, while several cases to the opposite, that is Israeli spies' involvement in espionage and terrorist operations in Iran have already been proved. For instance, Iran's 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, a chemistry professor and a deputy director of commerce at Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was assassinated during the morning rush-hour in the capital early January. His driver was also killed in the terrorist attack. Roshan was killed on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010. The method used for Roshan's assassination was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization - and his colleague Majid Shahriari. Abbasi Davani survived the attack, while Shahriari was martyred. Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011. Iran has condemned the CIA, MI6 and Mossad for the five assassinations. An Iranian court of revolution in August sentenced to death the terrorist who assassinated Ali Mohammadi in 2010. Majid Jamali Fashi pleaded guilty to murdering Massoud Ali Mohammadi. Tehran's Public and Revolution Courts Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced at the time that Jamali Fashi had been trained in Mossad's military bases. Jafari Dolatabadi also stated that Jamali Fashi had received $120,000 from the Zionist regime to carry out the assassination and then returned to Iran. Majid Jamali Fashi said in his confessions aired by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on January 11, 2011, "I became acquainted with a number of Israeli officers on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway after we had a visit to Israel and I received different training courses, including chasing, running, counter-chasing and techniques for planting bombs in a car." The terrorist added that he had also been trained in that Israeli garrison how to carry out bomb attacks while riding a motorcycle. Jamali Fashi also said that he had received psychological and operational briefings for assassinating Dr. Ali Mohammadi and had exercised the bombing plot for killing the Iranian scientist several times at the Israeli garrison. He also mentioned during his confessions that small models of Dr. Mohammadi's house and his house surroundings were used during his training course.