An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and a second injured after bombs attached to their cars blasted in the early morning hours in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Tehran / NationalTurk – An Iranian university professor and deputy director at Natanz Nuclear enrichment facility was killed in a terrorist bomb blast in a Northern Tehran neighborhood on Wednesday morning.
The magnetic bomb which was planted by an unknown motorcyclist under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, a professor at Tehran’s technical university, also wounded two other Iranian nationals in Seyed Khandan neighborhood in Northern Tehran.
Iran Nuclear scientist prof. killed in Tehran bombing
Ahmadi Roshan, 32, was a graduate of oil industry university and a deputy director of Natanz uranium enrichment facility for commercial affairs.
Another interesting fact about the blast is that it took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.
The today bombing method was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani – who is now the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization – and his colleague Majid Shahriari, who died in the 2010 attacks.
Iran government quickly released a statement, accusing Israel and western states for the Tehran bombings which claimed the life of an important figure of Iran’s contoversial nuclear programme.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad claimed that “undoubtedly the hand of the Israeli regime and Western governments is involved in the assassination of Ahmadi Roshan.”
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