Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said on Wednesday that Tehran doesn't trust Israeli sources and reports on the fate of the former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister, Ali Reza Asgari.
Asked to comment on Israeli media's alleged reports on Asgari's martyrdom in Israeli prisons, Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran on Wednesday that "we do not trust such statements since we do not trust in Zionists".Ali Reza Asgari, a former Iranian deputy defense minister under Khatami's administration, was kidnapped in Istanbul in December 2006 while on a personal business trip to Turkey. The Zionist media have recently claimed that Asgari has been killed in Israeli jails after years of interrogation and torture. The Israeli Ynet claimed in a report that a prisoner had committed suicide in solitary confinement in Ayalon prison. The Euroasia Review website later claimed that a source within the "inner circle" of the Israeli defense ministry had identified the prisoner as Asgari and that his death was murder and not suicide. The Ynet report was taken down and fully erased from the internet later. Iranian officials have dismissed Israel's contradictory allegations on the story, and asked for thorough investigations into the case by human rights and other international bodies. Earlier, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Raou'f Sheibani said Israel is responsible for Asgari's life and such reports merely make Israel's responsibility heavier. Israel has conducted similar criminal acts in the past, namely the kidnapping of four Iranian diplomats in Lebanon in 1982, who were later moved to prisons in the occupied territories, the deputy foreign minister added. The charge d'affaires of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, military attache Ahmad Motevaselian, embassy technician Taghi Rastegar Moghadam and journalist of the Islamic republic news agency Kazzem Akhavan were kidnapped by the Lebanese mercenary army - also known as the Falangists - at a gunpoint in northern Lebanon in 1982 and were later handed over to Israeli army. Israel has released contradictory reports on the issue. The Zionist regime alleged in a statement last year that the diplomats had never been surrendered to Israel. Elsewhere it claimed in response to a request put forward by the Lebanese Hezbollah group that the four are already dead.
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