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Wednesday, January 13, 2010     FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Iran loses its third nuclear scientist in two years

NICOSIA - A senior nuclear scientist has been killed in a bombing Iran attributed to Israel.   

Officials said Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed as he left his Teheran house on Jan. 12, Middle East Newsline reported. They said Mohammadi as well as others were killed by a motorcyle rigged with a remote-control bomb.

Over the last three years, at least three Iranian nuclear scientists were said to have been killed or defected. Iran has accused Israel and the United States of targeting Iranian scientists believed involved in the nuclear and missile programs.


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"America's spying and intelligence agents from one side abduct some Iranian citizens and on the other side their treacherous agents kill an Iranian citizen inside the country," the Iranian Cabinet said.

Later, Iranian prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi confirmed the death of the 50-year-old Mohammadi, identified as a nuclear physics professor at Teheran University. Dolatabadi said nobody has yet been arrested.

"Since Ali Mohammadi was one of the scientists of physics and nuclear energy, most probably intelligence services and elements of the Mossad and CIA had a hand in his assassination," Dolatabadi said.

Officials did not describe Mohammadi's role in Iran's nuclear program but said he was not an employee of the Atomic Energy Organization. They said Israel and the United States have been identifying key staffers in Iran's missile and nuclear program.

"Such terrorist acts and the apparent elimination of the country's nuclear scientists will definitely not obstruct scientific and technological processes," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.

Mohammadi was also said to have signed an Internet petition that supported opposition leader and defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. In 2002, Mohammadi participated in a United Nations project, titled SESAME, that included Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Morocco.

"We did not discuss politics or nuclear issues, as our project is not connected to nuclear physics," Israeli representative to the UN project, Eliezer Rabinovich, told the Washington Post.




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