Iranian scientist killed in car explosion
An Iranian nuclear scientist who worked at one of the country's uranium enrichment plants has been killed by a bomb that had been attached to his car in capital Tehran.
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died after an unidentified motorcyclist fastened a magnetic mine to his vehicle outside a university in east Tehran, Newsru Israel reported. Roshan died on the spot, the other two passengers were hospitalized.
The scientist worked as deputy director at uranium enrichment plant in Natanz and lectured at the Polytechnical University in Tehran.
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is the latest to die in a series of attacks on the country's scientific community. Several similar incidents involving the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists have previously occurred in Tehran. The local media blamed the murders on the West and USA.
In January 2010 Professor Mahsud Ali Mohamed of Tehran University was killed outside his home. In November of that year, bomb attacks claimed the lives of two atomic scientists, Majid Shakhriani, and his colleague Dr. Fereidoun Davani-Abbasi, and injured their wives. In both cases, their cars were attacked by unknown motorcyclists.
