Physicist's killer to face death
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August 29, 2011, Monday
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A MAN was yesterday sentenced to death for last year's killing of an Iranian physicist, which authorities have blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency.
The official IRNA news agency quoted the Iran's prosecutor-general, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei, as saying Majid Jamali Fashi had been sentenced to death for "defiance of God" (using arms against the Islamic goverment) and spreading "corruption on the earth" (harming public security and order).
Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by a bomb-rigged motorcycle that exploded outside his house as he was leaving for work in January last year.
In November, a pair of bomb attacks in Tehran killed nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari and wounded another nuclear scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, who later became the country's nuclear chief.
Fashi, 23, went on trial last Tuesday. He was also accused of cooperating with Mossad, traveling to Israel to attend a Mossad training course, and receiving money from the Israeli intelligence service. He has admitted the charges in a televised confession and again on the day of the trial. He has 20 days to appeal.
According to the conservative Tabnak news website, Fashi was a member of the Iranian national pankration team, a sport including elements of boxing and wrestling.
Iran claims Mossad aims to roll back scientific progress in Muslim nations.
In January, Iran said it arrested 10 people with alleged links to Mossad who it claimed were implicated in the killing of at least two Iranian scientists.
The official IRNA news agency quoted the Iran's prosecutor-general, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei, as saying Majid Jamali Fashi had been sentenced to death for "defiance of God" (using arms against the Islamic goverment) and spreading "corruption on the earth" (harming public security and order).
Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by a bomb-rigged motorcycle that exploded outside his house as he was leaving for work in January last year.
In November, a pair of bomb attacks in Tehran killed nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari and wounded another nuclear scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, who later became the country's nuclear chief.
Fashi, 23, went on trial last Tuesday. He was also accused of cooperating with Mossad, traveling to Israel to attend a Mossad training course, and receiving money from the Israeli intelligence service. He has admitted the charges in a televised confession and again on the day of the trial. He has 20 days to appeal.
According to the conservative Tabnak news website, Fashi was a member of the Iranian national pankration team, a sport including elements of boxing and wrestling.
Iran claims Mossad aims to roll back scientific progress in Muslim nations.
In January, Iran said it arrested 10 people with alleged links to Mossad who it claimed were implicated in the killing of at least two Iranian scientists.
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