Iranian nuclear scientist Professor Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan,
32, was killed yesterday in a bomb blast in Tehran. Witnesses saw
motorcyclists attach a magnetic explosive device to his car before the
blast.
Roshan’s bodyguard, who was driving, was also killed, and
an 85-year-old passerby was reportedly wounded. The motorcyclists
escaped into traffic.
BBC journalists in Tehran reported that the
bomb was highly specialized, “a targeted, focused device intended to
kill one or two people and small enough not to be heard from far away.”
Roshan
was a professor at a Tehran technical university and a supervisor at
the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz. He had reportedly met with
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors a few days before
he was assassinated. It was the fourth killing of an Iranian nuclear
scientist since 2010.
The US, Israeli and European
governments, which are pushing for an oil embargo against Iran to
undermine the country’s currency and economy, have accused Iran of
intending to build nuclear weapons. They have made clear that they would
stop at nothing, including war, to prevent Iran from acquiring such
weapons. Iran claims that its nuclear program is for peaceful
energy-generating and medical purposes.
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