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Bomb attacks on 2 nuclear specialists
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November 30, 2010, Tuesday
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ASSAILANTS on motorcycles attached bombs to the cars of two nuclear scientists as they were driving to work in Tehran yesterday, killing one and wounding the other, state television reported.
The report did not say whether the two university teachers were directly involved in the country's highly controversial nuclear program.
State TV blamed Israel for the attacks. At least two other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years in what Iran has alleged is part of a covert attempt by the West to damage its nuclear program. One of those two was killed in an attack similar to those yesterday.
The nuclear program is at the center of a bitter row between Iran on one side and the United States and its allies on the other. A number of world powers suspect Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons, an allegation the government denies.
Tehran's refusal to limit some of its nuclear activities has brought on multiple rounds of United Nations sanctions against the country.
The assailants, who escaped, drove by their targets on motorcycles and attached the bombs as the cars were moving. They exploded shortly after.
The man killed yesterday was identified as Majid Shahriari, a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. His wife, who was in the car with him, was?wounded.
A second, separate attack in the capital Tehran seriously wounded nuclear physicist Fereidoun Abbasi. His wife was also in the car with him, and she was also wounded.
A pro-government website, mashreghnews.ir, said Abbasi held a PhD in nuclear physics and was a laser expert at Iran's Defense Ministry and one of few top Iranian specialists in nuclear isotope separation.
The site said Abbasi is a member of the Revolutionary Guard, the country's most powerful military force. It said he is also a lecturer at Imam Hossein University, affiliated to the Guard.
The attacks bore close similarities to another in January that killed Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor. He was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work.
The report did not say whether the two university teachers were directly involved in the country's highly controversial nuclear program.
State TV blamed Israel for the attacks. At least two other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years in what Iran has alleged is part of a covert attempt by the West to damage its nuclear program. One of those two was killed in an attack similar to those yesterday.
The nuclear program is at the center of a bitter row between Iran on one side and the United States and its allies on the other. A number of world powers suspect Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons, an allegation the government denies.
Tehran's refusal to limit some of its nuclear activities has brought on multiple rounds of United Nations sanctions against the country.
The assailants, who escaped, drove by their targets on motorcycles and attached the bombs as the cars were moving. They exploded shortly after.
The man killed yesterday was identified as Majid Shahriari, a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. His wife, who was in the car with him, was?wounded.
A second, separate attack in the capital Tehran seriously wounded nuclear physicist Fereidoun Abbasi. His wife was also in the car with him, and she was also wounded.
A pro-government website, mashreghnews.ir, said Abbasi held a PhD in nuclear physics and was a laser expert at Iran's Defense Ministry and one of few top Iranian specialists in nuclear isotope separation.
The site said Abbasi is a member of the Revolutionary Guard, the country's most powerful military force. It said he is also a lecturer at Imam Hossein University, affiliated to the Guard.
The attacks bore close similarities to another in January that killed Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor. He was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work.
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