On November 29, two prominent physicists were targeted by terrorists in two separate bombings. Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi Davani was injured in the attacks. The two academics were both on their way to work at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran when they were attacked. The police say that in both incidents, terrorists riding motorcycles attached magnetic bombs to the physicists’ cars.
The terrorists were arrested by intelligence agents, Dolatabadi said, adding that they confessed that they had received training outside the country on methods to conduct terrorist operations in Iran.
The criminals had plans to carry out other terrorist attacks in the country as well, he told reporters.
However, the main culprits behind the assassination of the two Shahid Beheshti University professors have not been apprehended yet, he added.
Court hearing for 3 U.S. citizens to be held in Feb. 2011
Dolatabadi said that the court hearing for the three U.S. citizens, who were arrested in Iran last year for illegally entering the country, is scheduled to be held on February 6, 2011.
Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Joshua Fattal, were arrested on July 31, 2009 by Iranian border guards after illegally entering Iran’s territory from Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The three have been charged with illegal entry and espionage.
Shourd was released from prison on bail of $500,000 on September 14.
Prisoners can go on furlough if they behave properly
Granting a furlough to a prisoner is a concession, and it will be given to those detainees who have conducted themselves properly during their incarceration, Dolatabadi replied when asked why some prisoners who were arrested during the post-election unrest in Iran in 2009 have not been allowed to go on furlough.
But these prisoners still issue statements from prison and present themselves as the captives of the Islamic Republic, he stated.
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