Monarchists take responsibility for Iran assassination

The Iran Royal Association, an obscure monarchist group that seeks to reestablish the Pahlavi reign in Iran, announced in a statement that its "Tondar Commandos" were behind the assassination of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi.

Ali-Mohammadi, described by colleagues as a non-political person, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle parked outside his home in the north Tehran neighborhood of Qetariyeh.

Announcing the killing, the website of the group said that they had previously threatened "the sell-out" with death.

The Iran Royal Association, headed by Foroud Fouladvand, is responsible for a deadly bombing in the southern city of Shiraz back in April 2008, in which 13 people were killed and hundreds were wounded.

/Press TV/