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TEHRAN (AFP) – The alleged killer of a top nuclear scientist who was murdered last year said he was trained in Israel by the Mossad spy agency, state-television reported on its website on Monday.

Majid Jamali Fash, identified in the report as "a member of Mossad
terrorist network and the main element" behind last year's assassination
of nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi, said he was trained by
Israeli military officers at a base near Tel Aviv.

"On a trip to Tel Aviv, I got acquainted with several senior Israeli
officers in a base on a highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. There, I
learned different things such as tailing, stalking and planting bombs
under vehicles," Fash was quoted as saying on the website.

He did not say when he had made the trip to Israel.

Fash said he was briefed about Ali Mohammadi and "practised bombing in a base near Tel Aviv several times."

"I was given a very precise model of Dr Ali Mohammad... >>>