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Bomb Kills Iranian Nuclear Scientist

By WILLIAM YONG and ALAN COWELL

TEHRAN — Unidentified assailants riding motorcycles launched bomb attacks early on Monday against two Iranian nuclear physicists here, killing one of them and prompting accusations that the United States and Israel were behind the episode, state-controlled media reports said.

The dead scientist was identified as Majid Shahriari, a physics professor at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran, whose wife was injured when a bomb attached to his car was detonated remotely. A second professor at the same university, Fereydoon Abbasi, was injured in a separate, simultaneous attack. His wife was also hurt.

Iranian media reports said the attackers attached bombs to the cars of both academics and detonated them from a distance.

The semi-official Fars news agency declared: “The United States and the Zionist regime perpetrated a terrorist attack on two professors at Shahid Beheshti university.”

Some unofficial Iranian media reports, controlled by hardliners, described Mr. Abbasi as a loyalist supporter of the Iranian regime involved in nuclear research at the Defense Ministry and said both scientists were from the nuclear engineering department of Shahid Beheshti University.

Mr. Shahriari was said in some reports to have taught at the Supreme National Defense University, run by the Iranian Army.

Iranian media accounts called the attacks terrorism.

The attacks were similar to a bombing last January in which a remote-controlled bomb killed another physics professor, Masoud Ali Mohammadi, outside his home. The Iranian authorities also blamed that attack on the United States and Israel — a charge the State Department in Washington rebutted as absurd.

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told the semiofficial IRNA news agency that Mr. Shahriari “was my student and he worked with the Atomic Energy Organization.”

Mr. Salehi called him the manager of “one of the organization’s major projects” and said Tehran would “multiply our nuclear efforts.”

“Don’t play with fire,” he warned Western powers and their allies. “The patience of the Iranian people has its limits. If our patience runs out, you will suffer the consequences.”

Both Mr. Mohammadi and Mr. Shahriari were associated with a non-nuclear scientific research unit, based in Jordan and operating under United Nations auspices, known as SESAME for Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East. Unusually, its nine-member council includes representatives from Israel along with Iran and several other Muslim countries. It was not clear whether the killings of the two Iranian scientists were linked to their association with the organization.

In an apparent coincidence, the latest bombing came a day after leaked State Department documents quoted several Arab leaders as urging the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran says its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only but many in the West and in Israel maintain Tehran’s aim is to build a nuclear bomb.

The bombings came days before Iranian officials are supposed to meet on Dec. 5 for oft-postponed talks on nuclear and other issues with officials from world powers seeking to persuade Tehran to abandon nuclear fuel enrichment which could contribute to a military capability.


William Yong reported from Tehran, and Alan Cowell from Paris.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/world/middleeast/30tehran.html
 
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US is accused, but its accusation until proved.Could be hand of inside men too, who want to overthrow the rule.
Thats bad, scientists were working for best interest of their country, true patriots and suffered death from unknown enemy.
 
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US is accused, but its accusation until proved.Could be hand of inside men too, who want to overthrow the rule.
Thats bad, scientists were working for best interest of their country, true patriots and suffered death from unknown enemy.

Same can be said for 15 missing Indian nuclear scientists.
 
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US is accused, but its accusation until proved.Could be hand of inside men too, who want to overthrow the rule.
Thats bad, scientists were working for best interest of their country, true patriots and suffered death from unknown enemy.

Remember them:
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There is a reason people are pointing fingers at Israel.
 
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why you want to start flame

Dnt troll here ................ Not related to India

Sure it is not related to India because Indians ignore their own missing scientists while building conspiracy theories based on paid reports.
 
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Sure it is not related to India because Indians ignore their own missing scientists while building conspiracy theories based on paid reports.

In PDF half the thread related to India based on paid reporters

So does it matter if another one started ????
 
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What is wrong with you? Why you see conspiracy theory in everything? Is not it clear that only US or Israel is behind this killing?
 
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even Israel can't do this in Iran without US support...
people who know what this means will agree with me...
 
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even Israel can't do this in Iran without US support...
people who know what this means will agree with me...

You clearly don't not understand Israel and MOSSAD well enough. In matters of national security, Israel acts first and then starts worrying about support. The last time the US tried to interfere with Israel's plans and sent a warship to monitor them, Israel blew it up and then said "opps...we are so sorry" (see USS Liberty Incident).

I, for one, am absolutely sure that MOSSAD did this. Frankly, only they have the balls to pull off stunts like this.
 
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Iranian nuclear scientist killed, another injured in Tehran bombings
By Thomas Erdbrink
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, November 29, 2010


TEHRAN - A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist was killed Monday and a second was seriously wounded in nearly simultaneous car bomb attacks in the Iranian capital, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

The explosions, which took place near Shahid Beheshti University, are the latest in a string of recent assassination attempts in which five doctors and professors have been killed in Tehran.

Iranian authorities blamed agents of Israel and the United States for the killings, saying they want to cause chaos in the country. But leading figures in Iran's opposition movement accused the government of plotting the attacks in order to spread fear in the capital, where many oppose the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"Undoubtedly the hand of the Zionist regime and Western governments is involved" in the attacks, Ahmadinejad told reporters in a news conference. He said the bombings would not stop Iran from pursuing its nuclear program.

According to Fars, scientists Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi were parking their cars in separate locations near the university campus about 7:45 a.m. local time when they were attacked.

Witnesses said each car was approached by a group of men on motorcycles, who attached explosives to the vehicles and detonated them seconds later, the news agency reported. Shahriari was killed instantly. Abbasi was wounded. Both men were with their wives, who were wounded as well.
Abbasi is a high-ranking Defense Ministry official who is involved in Iran's nuclear program. He has been subject to foreign travel restrictions since 2007 in accordance with United Nations Security Council sanctions and is considered a main player in Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program.

The head of Iran's nuclear energy program, Ali Akbar Salehi, visited Abbasi in the hospital after the bombing and spoke to reporters about the scientists, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Salehi said Shahriari was "in charge of one of the biggest projects" of Iran's nuclear program, the agency said, but it did not specify which program.

"The enemy took our dearest flower, but must know that this nation, through resistance and all its might, will make efforts to remove problems and achieve its desires," Salehi said.

Shahriari also was known for his involvement in a regional, non-nuclear scientific research project - called Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, or SESAME - in which Israel also participated. He is the second Iranian scientist involved in that program to be assassinated in Tehran.

The SESAME project is based in Jordan, under the auspices of the United Nations. It includes scientists from several Middle Eastern countries. The involvement of both Iran and Israel makes the project unusual, because Israel is not recognized by Iran and has no ties to the Islamic Republic. Palestinian scientists also participate.

Iranian and foreign scientists say the project has applications in industry, medicine, nanotechnology and other fields unrelated to nuclear power.

In January, another scientist involved in the SESAME project, Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, was killed in Tehran when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in front of his house.

At the time, many thought Ali-Mohammadi had been supporting the opposition. Government officials, however, accused the United States and Israel of being behind the attack.

Fars, which has close ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, alleged that foreign "enemies" were involved in Monday's attacks - a charge Ahmadinejad echoed hours later.

"The enemies of the Iranian nation, who have lost hope in their pressure and sanctions projects, have once again, on the eve of negotiations with Iran, resorted to blind terrorist attacks so that they can advance their illegitimate and oppressive demands against the Iranian nation at the negotiating table," the agency wrote.

Iranian officials are supposed to meet with representatives of other nations Dec. 5 for talks on nuclear and other issues.
 
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