The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is partly to blame for the recent killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist and for the injury of another professor, a senior Iranian diplomat charged Thursday, dpa reported.
Iran's envoy to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told reporters that nuclear experts who had cooperated with the Vienna-based agency had found their names on UN sanctions lists and now had to fear for their lives.
"Of course the agency is responsible also," the ambassador said, blaming the IAEA for passing on the victims' names.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has charged Israel and Western governments were linked to the attacks.
University professor Majid Shahriari was killed and fellow nuclear scientist Fereydoun Abbasi was injured in two attacks Monday in Tehran.
Abbasi was listed by the United Nations Security Council in a 2007 sanctions resolution as a senior Defence Ministry scientist.
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