Blast Kills Iranian Nuclear Physicist
An Iranian nuclear physicist has been killed by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle. Iranian prosecutor general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi is pointing the finger at Western intelligence agencies. A U.S. State Department spokesman called the accusation “absurd.”
Iranian-government TV is calling the explosion that killed a physics professor at Tehran University a “terrorist act.” The TV report says a bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed Massoud Ali-Mohammadi as he was getting into his car.
The TV showed relatives of Mohammedi crying in front of the building where he lived, as a large crowd of bystanders gathered around his burned-out vehicle. Most windows in the modern-looking building where he resided appeared to have been blown out from the force of the explosion.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmenparast accused Israel, America and Iranian mercenaries of being behind the “terrorist incident.”
Tehran prosecutor-general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi told Iranian TV a similar story, saying because Mass