Washington, July - The U.S. State Department on Monday denied that the country is involved in the recent assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist, urging Iran not to use the incident to "distract attention." "We were not involved," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters, in response to the death of Dariush Rezaei, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed in eastern Tehran on Saturday. She said it is a "frequent practice" for Iran to "accuse the West" for these kinds of incidents. "We hope that Tehran is not planning to use this incident to distract attention from what it needs to do, which is to come back into compliance with international obligations," she added. Iran's Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani called the assassination as a " U.S.-Zionist terrorist act," the satellite Press TV reported Sunday. There have been a series of assassination attempts against Iran's nuclear scientists in recent years. In January 2010, the Iranian nuclear scientist and the Physics professor at the prestigious University of Tehran, Massoud Ali- Mohammadi, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorbike parked near his house. In November 2010, another Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriar was also killed by a bomb attached to his car on the way to his work. In January, Iran said it dismantled an Israeli spying network and arrested a group of people who were linked to the assassination of its nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi.


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