Iran nuclear scientist assassinated in Tehran

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Published 18:04 23.07.11
Latest update 18:07 23.07.11

Report: Iran nuclear scientist assassinated in Tehran
Iran's student news agency reports that the scientist was killed outside his home on Saturday and that his wife was wounded.
By Reuters Tags: Iran Iran nuclear


An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in Tehran on Saturday, Iran's student news agency ISNA reported without giving his name.

"An Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in front of his house today ... and his wife was also wounded," it said.
Bushehr - AP - Aug. 21, 2010

Bushehr nuclear reactor in southern Iran
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No other details were immediately available.

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, quoting an unnamed police source, said police were investigating the assassination which took place in an eastern Tehran area.

In November 2010, an Iranian scientist was killed and another was wounded in Tehran. Iran blamed those hits on the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services.

In the past few months, Iran has arrested a number of alleged "nuclear spies", warning citizens against leaking information to foreign secret services.

Iran is at odds with the United States and its allies over its nuclear work, which the West says is a cover to build bombs. Iran denies the allegations.


www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-iran-nuclear-scientist-assassinated-in-tehran-1.374847

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Anyone know how he was killed?

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Seeing as his wife was also wounded, my guess would be gunshot.

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Or perhaps advanced ariel micro drone?

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Iran: Murder of nuclear scientist is Israeli-American 'act of terror'
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says assassination of physics professor at his Tehran home on Saturday may have consequences.
By Haaretz Tags: Iran nuclear Iran Iran threat


Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani blamed Israel and the U.S. for the murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist on Saturday, AFP reported Sunday. Larijani was quoted in the Mehr news agency calling the killing an "American-Zionist act of terror."

He added that the death was "another sign of the degree of animosity in the United States… the Americans must think carefully about the consequences of such acts."

The semi-official ISNA news agency identified the victim as Darioush Rezaei, a 35-year-old physics professor involved in Iran's nuclear program, and said he was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle in front of his home in Tehran. Iran's official IRNA news agency also reported the killing but had few details on the attack or the man's background.

Despite UN and other sanctions, Iran has steadily moved ahead with its uranium enrichment work, the central aspect of its nuclear program and the process that is of deepest concern to the West because it can be used both to produce reactor fuel and material for nuclear warheads

www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-murder-of-nuclear-scientist-is-israeli-american-act-of-terror-1.374975

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Slain Iranian scientist was working on a nuclear bomb detonator
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

24 July. Daryush Rezaee-Nejad, 35, who died Saturday, July 23, when two motorcyclists shot him in the head and throat in front of his home in Tehran, was a rising star of the new generation of Iranian nuclear scientists. DEBKAfile's Iranian sources disclose he was attached to one of the most secret teams of Iran's nuclear program, employed by the defense ministry to construct detonators for the nuclear bombs and warhead already in advanced stages of development.

This was another in the series of mysterious attacks of top-flight scientists attached to the Iranian nuclear program in the past year.
His dual employment as a student and member of top-flight flight nuclear team and Tehran's reluctance to admit how deeply its nuclear program had been penetrated account for the Iranian media's conflicting accounts of Razaee-Nejad's role.

Initially, he was described as "a nuclear scientist working for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran," then as "an electronics master's student.