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ROME _ An Iranian opposition leader was assassinated on his way to work Tuesday by a gunman on a motorbike. Tehran denied accusations by his supporters that it orchestrated the killing.
Mohammad Hussein Naghdi, the representative in Italy of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was shot twice with an automatic weapon by a man riding on the back of a Vespa driven by another man.
Police spokesman Antonio Vecchione said no suspects were found in a sweep of the Montesacro residential section in northeast Rome. The murder weapon, an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun, was found in a trash container, the news agency AGI said.
Naghdi's group accused Italy of providing insufficient police...