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Iranian
nuclear scientist killed in a bomb attack
Monday November 29, 2010 05:29:04 PM ,
Agencies
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Tehran:
Assailants on motorcycles attached bombs to the cars of two
nuclear scientists as they were driving to work in Tehran Monday,
killing one and wounding the other, state media and officials
said.
Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said the man killed was
involved in a major project at the country’s chief nuclear agency,
though he did not give specifics.
Some Iranian media reported that the wounded scientist was a laser
expert at Iran’s Defense Ministry and one of the country’s few top
specialists in nuclear isotope separation.
State TV swiftly blamed Israel for the attacks.
At least two other Iranian nuclear
scientists have been killed in recent years in what Iran has
alleged is part of a covert attempt by the West to damage its
controversial nuclear program. One of those two was killed in an
attack similar to those on Monday.
Nuclear chief Salehi, issued a stern warning as he rushed to
hospital to see the surviving scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi.
“Don’t play with fire. The patience of the Iranian nation has
limits. If it runs out of patience, bad consequences will await
enemies,” the official news agency IRNA quoted Salehi as saying as
he met Abbasi at his hospital bedside.
Salehi, one of Iran’s vice presidents, was apparently referring to
Israel and the US, which Iran alleges are trying to damage its
nuclear program.
Salehi also indicated that the scientist killed, Majid Shahriari,
was involved in Iran’s nuclear activities.
The assailants, who escaped, drove by their targets on motorcycles
and attached the bombs as the cars were moving.
They exploded shortly thereafter, state TV reported.
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