Despite US and UK claims, Del Ponte said there are no evidence of government forces might also have used chemical weapons.

On the question of whether chemical weapons had been used, he called for an “end to the politicization of this issue” and to the “whipping up of an anti-Syrian atmosphere”.

Damascus is “genuinely worried” that Syria’s enemies could provide chemical weapons to armed groups “and then claim they had been used by the Syrian government,” Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari said in letters to the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general on December 17, 2012.

“Our investigators have been in neighbouring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals. According to their report of last week, which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” she said.

Sarin is a powerful neurotoxin developed by Nazi scientists in the 1930s which can cause respiratory arrest and death, and is classed as a weapon of mass destruction, banned under international law.

In meantime, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi headed to Jordan today to “discuss a political breakthrough from Syria crisis,” according to a statement by Ramin Mehmanparast, spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, Hossain Amir- Abdollahian, will visit Syria this week.

“We are concerned by the signs that global public opinion is being prepared for possible armed intervention in the internal conflict in Syria,” Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister said on Monday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry also will travels to Moscow this week to discuss Syrian issue with his Russian counterpart.

“ Russia calls on nations to stop politicizing the issue of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, escalating anti-Syrian sentiment,” Lavarov.

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The U.S. has released Iranian professor Mojtaba Atarodi held in the United States, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Friday.

Atarodi arrived in Muscat, capital city of Oman, a Persian Gulf Arab state which enjoys good relations with both Washington and Tehran, on Firday morning and will Muscat for Tehran tomorrow.

“On the instructions of his majesty Sultan Qaboos…to heed the Iranian request, Professor Mojtaba Atarodi, member of the scientific society at Sharif University who had been kept in the United States since 2012 to Muscat airport,” Oman state television reported.

According to a photo published by Iran’s embassy in Oman, Atarodi welcomed by Reza Mihani Hasanzade, Charge d’affaires at the Iranian embassy in Muscat and Naser Esmaeli, an adviser to Sultan Qaboos. in the photo attarodi seems to became weak and lost weigh comparing to his photos of one year earlier. 

Atarodi was detained on Dec.7, 2011 in Los Angeles over allegations that he had violated the US export laws by purchasing high-tech American laboratory equipment.

“The areas of his (Atarodi’s) research are all related to mass public usage of Integrated Circuits (IC’s) and systems such as smart cards, central office line cards, and Digital TV set-top box,” A Statement Made by Sharif University of Technology on January 11, 2012 read.

“He has never been involved in any kind of military related type of research. His publications and the thesis of the numerous students supervised under him is a clear indication of that fact,” the statement added.

In an interview with Associated Press, Mojtaba Atarodi denied his involvement in any kind of weapon development program. “My academic and research activityas a Professor in Electrical Engineering department at Sharif University has no association whatsoever with non-consumer and government uses,” he said.

The Dr. Atarodi’s wife also denied charges against her husband. she told PressTV on 2012 that the university scholar “as always was doing an academic research, trying to buy some simple equipment for his personal lab, which had no dual-use technology, and not related to any military work at all.”

The family of Dr. Atarodi also expressed their worry about his health many times during last two years.

Atarodi suffered a stroke upon entering custody on 2012.

“We are very much concerned about the health of Professor Atarodi. He has a well documented history of heart and diabetes problems. Prison conditions, he is currently in, not only exacerbate these problems, but may have a devastating effect on such a sensitive person,” read a statement by the Council Members of Sharif University of Technology.

At the start of 2011, Atarodi won Iran’s prestigious Khwarizmi international award along with twenty-three other scientists.

He won the award for research carried out towards designing a microchip receiver for digital photos. The award was presented to him in the presence of the Iranian president, the minister of science, and Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, the Iranian minister of defense who is in command of Iran’s defense industries.

The 54-year-old scientist is a microchip expert and assistant professor at Sharif University of Technology. He is the author or coauthor of dozens of scientific papers dealing with microchip technology.

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Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon as runners crossed the finish line. Officials said three people were killed and 100 people were wounded as a result of Monday’s explosions.

President Barack Obama promised to hunt down whoever was responsible for the attack on a day when tens of thousands of spectators packed the streets to watch the world-famous race.

White House officials and investigators said it was too early to say whether the Boston attacks were carried out by a foreign or homegrown terror group or to identify a motive.

Alternative Stories to the Official Version of the Incident

In the social media and Western alternative media, lots of people are discussing other versions of the story. The most popular doubt raised about Monday’s incident says the explosions were in fact part of a drill by the Boston bomb squad.

“It’s now becoming clear that members of the Boston bomb squad had advance notice of the horrific bombings that took place at the marathon today. As an eyewitness reports, once the bombs went off, officials began announcing, ‘this is just a drill’,”an american blogger wrote in a piece.

 Russia Today also posted a piece titled “’Neither liberty nor safety’: Has American freedom’s race been run at Boston Marathon?” and suggested this incident can be used as tool to bring more fear to american people and limiting their freedom.

What Iranians say About Boston Incident?

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the Monday bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon.

“We believe all governments must try to maintain calm and security for everyone. Acts of extremism and terrorism have to be uprooted across the world and no effort should be made to justify violence,” the ministry’s spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparas said.

In the social media, Beside expressing regret and condemning the bombing incident in Boston, Iranian users on Facebook and Google Plus networks critiqued:

“It is really sad that people were killed in the Boston Marathon bombing but why does no one care when Iraqis are dying everyday in terrorist attacks? “ wrote Mohsen, an Iranian student in his Google plus profile.

“I recalled [American involvement in] Iraq and Afghanistan when I saw the sad photos of the Boston bombing.” another user posted in Facebook.

“In the footage of the explosion it is only smoke, no buildings are destroyed and it seems to be a weak explosion, nothing flew into the air. Casting some doubt on the magnitude of the official claims of destruction” Mahnaz wrote in in her Facebook page.

 KhabarOnline, Iranian news site close to Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s Majlis in an interview with a political analysts suggested “Involving internal extremists in the Boston bombings is the most plausible story. ” The incident happened on Patriot’s day and there are many extremists who could try to show their objection to US foreign policy.”

Raja News, the news website close to Paydari front, one of the Principalist’s political wings, asked in its post about the Boston bombing, “Are the Boston explosions another Sept 11?” Raja believes, contradictory statements published by the White House and local authorities, suggests that it was another controlled attack.

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