IRANIAN SCIENTIST KILLED

A leading Iranian nuclear scientist was murdered in Tehran in a rare bomb attack that the government quickly blamed on “mercenaries” in the pay of United States and Israel. Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at prestigious Tehran University, died when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his home in northern Tehran as he was getting into a car on his way to work. Tehran’s chief prosecutor also implicated the United States and Israel, saying their respective intelligence services were likely behind the attack. “Given the fact that Massoud Ali Mohammadi was a nuclear scientist, the CIA and Mossad agents most likely have had a hand in it,” Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told the state broadcaster’s news service.