Iran sends rare letter to U.S. over killed scientist

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks Mehrabad airport with journalists Tehran after his visit to Latin America 14 January 2012.

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By Parisa Hafezi

Tehran (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington behind the latest killing, a nuclear scientist was, State television reported, at a time when tensions with regard to the country's nuclear program have escalated at their highest level ever.

In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb at the door of the 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan designed car during the Wednesday morning rush hour in the capital. His driver was also killed.

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton denied responsibility and Israeli President Shimon Peres said that Israel had no role in the attack to the best of his knowledge.

"We have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was designed, led and supported by the CIA," the Iranian Foreign Ministry in a letter to the Swiss Ambassador to Tehran, said passing State TV reported. The Swiss Embassy represents the interests of the United States in a country where Washington has no diplomatic relations.

The spokesman of Iran joint armed forces staff Massoud Jazayeri, said: "Our enemies, especially America, Great Britain and the Zionist regime (Israel), must be liable for their actions."

Iran in the past has accused caused a number of spectacular and sometimes bloody breakdowns Israel its nuclear programme. Israeli officials comment on any involvement in these events, although publicly expressed some satisfaction with the setbacks.

Does feel of the warmth of unprecedented new sanctions, Iran's clerical establishment the sword swung by threat, the most important Mid-East route block oil, start to enrich uranium to an underground bunker and sentenced an Iranian-American citizens to death espionage charges.

State TV said that a "Declaration of the sentence" also had been sent, United Kingdom, say that the Iranian nuclear scientists started killing after the head of British MI6 spy service intelligence operations against the States announced nuclear weapons.

The West says that Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at building a bomb. Tehran says that it has the right to peaceful nuclear energy.

The UN Security Council and Secretary-General asked Ban Ki-moon Tehran to condemn the latest killing.

After years of international sanctions, which had little effect on the Iran, signed President Barack Obama new measures on new year's Eve, which, if fully implemented, it would make it impossible for most countries for Iranian oil to numbers.

Washington is where the countries gradually reduce their purchases of Iranian oil to get temporary relief from the sanctions.

The European Union should reveal similar measures next week, and terminate one gradually between their Member States, which buy about one-fifth of Iranian exports oil embargo.

The combined measures mean that Iran will fail to sell 2.6 million barrels per day of exports, which it uses its 74 million people to feed all. Even if it finds a buyer, must these steep discounts, cut offer much-needed revenue into the.

On Tuesday, shipping sources said Reuters Iran was less than 8 million barrels - storage an increasing supply of oil at sea - and was likely to more as they battle to sell it to save.

Iran denies it problems: "there was no interruption of Iran's crude oil exports through the Persian Gulf..." We have oil in the Gulf because of the sanctions as some foreign media reported not stored "Oil official Pirouz Mousavi said more on Friday the semi-official news agency."

The sanctions cause real hardship on the roads, where prices for basic imported goods soar, currency is the Rial fell and the Iranians have been have stream in Rial, dollars, to protect their savings, buy sell.

The pain comes less than two months before the parliamentary elections, Iran only since the year 2009 by eight months of demonstrations was followed a presidential election.

The revolt by force successfully put Iranian authorities, but since then she "Arab spring" has shown fueled by anger over economic difficulties the vulnerability of the authoritarian governments in the region to protest.

ZUSAMMENSTOß threat

Iran has threatened, blocking the Strait of Hormuz leads to the Gulf when its oil exports imposed sanctions and threatened, take unspecified action if Washington an aircraft carrier through the Straits, international waterway sails.

Military experts say Tehran can do little to the massive US-led fleet to fight, which protects the road, but increase the threats could lead the chance of a misunderstanding, to a military conflict and a global oil crisis.

The Pentagon said on Friday that small Iranian boats close to U.S. ships in the Strait last week had indeed said that they believed not, that it was "hostile intent."

The United States and Israel have ruled out non-military action diplomacy fails, the nuclear dispute. Iran says that it would take revenge if attacked.

The tension has spikes in global oil prices in recent weeks, caused, although prices facilitate trade on the prospect of lower demand in economically affected European countries last week at the end. Brent crude oil fell to pay 82 cents to $110.44 per barrel on Friday.

The chances of an immediate relaxation seek to set away on the nuclear further deadlock due to the refusal of Iran, the sensitive nuclear work.

Last week Iran uranium enrichment began u-Bahn - the most controversial part of its nuclear programme - a bunker deep under a mountain near the Shi Shi'ite Holy City of Qom.

Nuclear talks with powers collapsed a year ago. Iran says it wants to resume the talks, but in the West says that unless no point in it, it is ready, a setting of uranium enrichment, to discuss, that can be used, make material for a bomb.

(Additional reporting by Mitra Amiri;) Writing by Parisa Hafezi. (Editing by Peter Graff)