IRAN said Israel was behind the murder of one of its nuclear scientists, who was killed by a magnet bomb fixed to his car by a motorcyclist.

THE United States last night rejected Iran’s accusation that Washington was behind the killing of an Iranian scientist and urged Tehran not to use the case to distract attention from its nuclear dispute.

A SENIOR Iranian official yesterday blamed the United States and Israel for the killing of an Iranian scientist who, the deputy interior minister said, was not linked to Iran’s nuclear programme as reported by media.