U. of Tehran Professor Is Killed by Bomb Blast

A professor of nuclear physics at the University of Tehran was killed by a remote-controlled bomb near his home on Tuesday, Iran’s Press TV reported. The state-controlled broadcaster called the professor, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, “a staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution” and said that “the kidnap and assassination of Iranian scientists is on the agenda of the United States.” In its report on the professor’s killing, Agence France-Presse noted that “Iranian authorities have consistently accused archfoes the United States and Israel of seeking to foment unrest in Iran” and that it was unclear “whether Mohammadi was connected to Iran’s controversial nuclear program, which the West suspects is masking an atomic weapons program.” The Associated Press reported that one government news site “described Mohammadi as a senior nuclear scientist but gave no other details.”