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A nuclear physics professor at Tehran University was killed Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran's capital, state media reported.
Massoud Ali Mohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the remote-controlled explosion went off, state-run Press TV said.
The blast shattered the windows of his home in northern Tehran's Qeytariyeh neighbourhood and left the pavement outside smeared with blood and strewn with debris.
It said Mohammadi was a "staunch supporter" of Iran's 1979 revolution and that he was "assassinated in a terrorist act by counter-revolutionary elements".
Student activists form the backbone of the Iranian reform movement. Iranian state television said Ali-Mohammadi was a "staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution," suggesting he was a pro-government. Fars also quoted one of his students as saying he had worked with the Revolutionary Guards until 2003. An opposition website, Jaras, said the professor was a supporter of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi.
Originally posted by TheCoffinman
i blame the cia or mossad. give them time, its only 1 dead now, lets see what else time brings...
Originally posted by john124
How does killing one professor stop a nuclear programme?
Fact is that it doesn't, so why believe the regime accusations?
1 Physicist at the university does not represent the whole nuclear programme. It would be a pretty lame attempt at damaging it.
Nearly 100 professors at Tehran University have criticised the regime's actions towards student protestors. The reason for his death is likely found there.
And there's the MEK opposition who oppose the regime.
[edit on 12-1-2010 by john124]
Originally posted by Magnum007
Oh oh!!! Can I smell the beginning of CIA/MOSSAD joint covert operations in Iran? People are starting to get rubbed out here and this is getting more and more serious!
Do you think that this is an internal affair with a disgruntled dissident? or Could it be something more like an externally ordered assassination?
Peace,
Magnum
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