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January 12, 2010

Iranian Nuclear Physicist Assassinated in Tehran
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An Iranian nuclear physicist was assassinated today in a bomb blast
outside his home in Tehran. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was a nuclear
scientist who taught at Tehran University and who might have had links
to Iran’s disputed nuclear program. No one has claimed responsibility
for the attack, but Iran’s Foreign Ministry blamed Israeli and American
agents. The killing comes one month after Iran accused the United States
of kidnapping another Iranian nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, who has
been missing since June when he traveled to Saudi Arabia on a religious
pilgrimage.



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