Iran Seeking External Scapegoats

Trying to deflect attention from themselves for knocking off a supporter of the opposition movement, the Iranian authorities are blaming Israel and the US for the bomb attack on a nuclear scientist.

Iranian media have blamed Israel and the US for a bomb attack which killed an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran.
State broadcaster Irib said "Zionist and American agents" planted a remotely controlled bomb that killed Professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi near his home.
Local media described him as a "devoted revolutionary professor".
It comes at a time of heightened tension in Iran, following June's disputed presidential election and mass protests against the government.
Israel and the US have so far made no comments about Tuesday's blast.

The professor had previously backed the opposition movement.

A nuclear physics professor who publicly backed opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the June presidential election was killed Tuesday when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home.
State media identified the victim as Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, which has been at the center of recent protests by student opposition supporters. Before the election, pro-reform Web sites published Mohammadi's name among a list of 240 university teachers who supported Mousavi.
The government blamed the attack Tuesday on an armed Iranian opposition group under the direction of Israel and the U.S.

By: Brant