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Car bomb kills Iranian scientist

A car bomb explosion in the Iranian capital, Tehran, has killed a nuclear scientist and his driver, and wounded one bystander.

On Wednesday morning, an unknown motorcyclist attached a sticky bomb to Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's car near Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.

Ahmadi Roshan was immediately killed as the result of explosion, and his driver and a bystander, who had sustained injuries, were transferred to Resalat hospital.

The driver, identified as Reza Qashqaei, passed away later on Wednesday in hospital.

Ahmadi Roshan was a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and served as marketing deputy of Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.

On November 29, 2010, unidentified terrorists slapped adhesive bombs onto the vehicles of Iranian university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi and detonated them.

Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, and his wife sustained minor injuries and were rushed to a hospital.

On December 2, 2010, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that the Israeli Mossad, the American CIA, and the British MI6 all played a role in those attacks.

Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, another scholar at Tehran University, was assassinated by a booby-trapped motorbike in the Iranian capital in January 2010.

The bombing took place near the professor's home in northern Tehran.

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[Falik]

This is the 4th nuclear scientist to be murdered.

Mossad it again? 4th Iranian nuclear scientist bombed

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Iran accuses Israel and the USA of assassinating an Iranian nuclear professor in Tehran, pointing to a string of attacks against such scientists in the country.
Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran, fourth in a year

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Tehran (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A 32-year-old Iranian nuclear scientist was killed this morning in a car bomb. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan is the fourth Iranian scientist to be killed since January 2010. In each case, Iranian authorities blamed Israel and the United States for the attacks but did not provide any evidence to back their claims.

On 23 July 2011, Dariush Rezaei, a physicist with links to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), was killed in Tehran by two gunmen on a motorbike in front of his home. His wife was wounded in the attack.

On 29 November 2010, Majid Shahriari, also Iranian nuclear scientist and professor at Shahid Beheshti University, was killed in the capital when someone on a motorcycle, like in Ahmadi-Roshan’s case, attached a magnetic bomb to his car. AEOI chief Fereydoon Abbasi Davani survived a similar assassination attempt on the same day.

Another internationally renowned Iranian nuclear scientist, Masoud Ali Mohammadi, was killed in Tehran on 11 January 2010 by a remote-controlled bomb.

[Ferkilort]

Forget about whether or not Iran should have Nuclear capabilities...when will the damn Iranian government figure out protecting their most gift people is probably in their best national interest?

[GoodLover]

Forget about whether or not Iran should have Nuclear capabilities...when will the damn Iranian government figure out protecting their most gift people is probably in their best national interest?

Good point! You think they would be under IRGC protection by now, this is the 4th one to go down!

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'Iran to target US & Israel for killing nuke scientist'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51Tds0_B2c

Uploaded by RussiaToday on Jan 11, 2012

Tension between the U.S. and Iran is being ratcheted up on what seems like a daily basis. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan from the Natanz uranium enrichment plant was killed in a car bomb on Wednesday. Tehran has accused Israel of what they've called a "heinous act". Washington denied any role in the death. This incident is the latest in a series of mysterious incidents involving Iran's nuclear industry. Columnist and veteran war correspondent Eric Margolis believes Tehran is willing to retaliate, but is being cautious at the moment.

[vicgirl]

The Real Reason Israel Kills Iranian Nuclear Scientists?

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Jan 11 2012, 6:05 PM ET

With yet another Iranian nuclear scientist freshly assassinated--presumably by Israel--Jeffrey Goldberg asks a good question: Why is Israel doing this?

Goldberg thinks the most common answers are less than compelling. It's unlikely, he says, that "Iranian nuclear knowledge is so concentrated in the minds of a few scientists" that these killings are a major setback to the nuclear program. And he doubts that the killings will scare much Iranian talent out of the nuclear science business, since the Iranian government wouldn't tolerate such an exodus.

But there's a third option that Goldberg doesn't consider: Israel is trying to start a war with Iran. The more Iranian scientists it kills (and the more missile testing facilities it blows up), the more likely Iran is to retaliate. And things have a way of escalating, which would pave the way for military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

[nursopoutaras]

After the U S invaded Iraq, I remember reading lots of stories about Iraqi scientists being murdered. In an age of technology, that is like cutting off a nation's head. Any dictator who gets power in Iraq will have to hire foreigners to develop any advanced military technology.

The Iranian scientists are being murdered by state sponsored terrorists. Strange that Israel accuses Iran of being a terrorist state. Accusations don't have to be true for people to believe them.

Hatha

[AbeldeldepBug]

I wonder is he was despondent.

Sounds like a suicide.

[IrrettelatWet]

I've posted a thread few months back about it:

Israel keeps killing Iranian nuclear scientists