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BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN

ANCHOR LAUREN GORES

Iran calls it a covert war against its nuclear program.

Wednesday morning a magnetic bomb killed an Iranian nuclear scientist. Multiple reports suggest the attackers were riding on motorcycles when they attached a bomb to the car carrying chemistry expert Mostafa Admadi Roshan.

Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reports -- a senior official in the country is blaming Israel.
 

“Zionists seem to be trying to create a security atmosphere in Iran on the threshold of (parliamentary) elections to decrease the people’[s] turnout in the polls’...”
 

The 32-year-old Iranian university professor isn’t the first nuclear scientist in the country to be killed. Reuters reports in the last two years, there have been five other daylight attacks on technical experts in Iran. Fox News asks -- is it possible Israel had a hand in the killings?

“There seems to be sort of a secret war against Iran and Israel has been blamed for it. Do we know that Israel has any role in this?
REPORTER: “No, in fact, there's been silence from Israeli officials, as is the case every time when one of these mystery murders pops up, and we have no concrete proof that Israel was in fact behind this. Iran, of course, in the past has blamed the CIA, mi-6, also the Israeli Moussad, for being behind these attacks.”
 

But The Guardian suggests, despite silence from Israeli officials about the attack, there could be some evidence to back up Iran’s suspicions.
 

“Both British and US officials have also spoken of the usefulness of covert operations against the Islamic republic. In a speech in 2010 Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, said: ‘We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons.’”
 

Then again, Reuters analysis suggests local involvement can’t yet be ruled out. Iran’s government has faced growing pressure from the international community over its nuclear program, which the regime maintains is for peaceful purposes.

Just last week -- the regime announced it was preparing to start uranium enrichment at a nuclear facility underground.

The BBC’s Frank Gardner concludes, while the attackers aren’t yet known -- one thing is clear.

“Whoever is behind them, Iran is clearly being subjected to an undeclared campaign to slow down its nuclear programme.”

According to the LA Times, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says it plans to continue its nuclear program, calling its path “irreversible.”