jawad zarif is pointing the finger at israel and also he is demanding international attention. terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. this cowardice with serious indications of this really rule show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. iran calls on the international community and especially you to end their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. well, so far there has been no response from israel and truly at this point, we cannot make any conclusions about possible connections between this murder and also the rhetoric that we have been hearing from israeli officials on iran's nuclear activities. but the fact is that 2 years ago and $28.00 taking the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called up the name of the murdered scientist and accused him not only of being behind the alleged military element of iran's nuclear program years ago. but also he accused them of continuing to covertly run the program up until present times. remember the main focus of the so here's this director writer and uses the generally name is to announ

have come out that could have come from outside iran, for example, the iranian foreign minister, jawad zarif. he has already said that there are, quote, unquote, serious indications of israeli role in this. and we do have to come back to what was said by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu 2 years ago and 2018 when he specifically named that scientist and called him the man behind the alleged iranian nuclear weapons program member. the main focus of the so here's right here. and he says, the generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activity is you know what that is a special look to will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments. and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. it continued this work in a series of organizations over the years. well, we do have to remember also that it's been knowledge by the international atomic energy agency that the iranian nuclear program is intended only for peaceful purposes. but accusations have been coming from israel all along that they still suspect that something could be cooking

this was the iranian foreign minister, jawad zarif, again making it clear that the iranian officials see this as a terrorist attack and also instantly pointing the finger at israel in this case. now again, to put this into perspective, we have to remember the words of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. because 2 years ago he was talking about this particular person alleging that he was behind the military wing of the arabian nuclear program. something else that needs and he always said was that despite assurances by the authorities in tehran that they know law, they were no longer involved in any kind of military activity. when it comes to their nuclear program, the israelis believed that they proceeded with that. and here's a part of the speech by any minute in the whole, in which we heard these words. remember the main focus of the. so here's the generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activities, you know, we're going to use special work to be carried out under the title of scientific know how developed and in fact, this is exactly what iran

i spoke to iran's foreign minister jawad zarif and the statements from the biden camp more promising, iran could find themselves back together at the nuclear table and in return, there could would be some sanctions relieved, but very quickly the supreme leader torpedoed that idea. he said to national television the american administration was rotting and not to be trusted. at the end of the day, the poor iranian people beleaguered, impoverished know they're not going to see any improvement in their lives any time soon, no matter who is in the white house. anthony? >> that's true. elizabeth palmer in tehran, thank you, liz. >>> ahead, the potential twists and turns when the final votes are counted across the united states, that's coming up on "cbs morning news." "cbs this morning." ♪ ♪ i got it all from you ♪ i'm always pushing through ♪ i know we'll make it to the finish line ♪ ♪ i know you're waiting on the other side ♪ ♪ i'm like you on-demand glucose monitoring. because they're always on. another life-changing technology from abbott. so you don't wait for life. you live it. >>> pre