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Nuclear scientist assassinated in Iran
An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated in a car explosion in Tehran.
Iran accused America and Israel of assassinating a leading nuclear scientist who worked as a professor at Tehran University.
Iranian media sources named the casualty as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said the blast happened when a motorcyclist stuck a bomb on the side of the car.
A number of Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in Iran in recent years. Tehran has blamed the killings on Israel and the US. Both countries denied the accusations.
Local sources said Wednesday's blast took place at a faculty of Iran's Allameh Tabatai university. Two others were reportedly also injured in the blast, which took place near Gol Nabi Street, in the north of the capital.
Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was a graduate of oil industry university and supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province, Fars reported.
The latest attack comes almost two years to the day since Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a 50-year-old university lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb as he left his home in Tehran on 12 January 2010.
There has been much controversy over Iran's nuclear activities. Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes, but the US and other Western nations suspect it of seeking to build nuclear weapons.
