Iranian nuclear physicist killed in bombing
A professor of nuclear physics at Tehran University was killed on Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran's capital, state media reported. Massoud Mohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the explosion went off, state-run Press TV said.
A professor of nuclear physics at Tehran University was killed on Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran's capital, state media reported. Massoud Mohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the explosion went off, state-run Press TV said.
The blast shattered the windows of his home in northern Tehran's Qeytariyeh neighborhood and left the pavement outside smeared with blood. The semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as confirming the killing. Neither report said whether Mohammadi was connected to Iran's nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at developing a nuclear weapons capability.
Iran denies having any intention to produce weapons and insists its nuclear work only has peaceful aims, such as energy production. The Press TV report described Mohammadi was "a staunch supporter" of the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah and brought Islamic clerics to power.