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Blast Kills Iranian Nuclear Physicist

   VOA News 12 January 2010
   Man  closes  door  of  Iranian  nuclear  physics professor Massoud Ali
   Mohammadi's  home, after he was killed in bomb blast in Tehran, 12 Jan
   2010

Photo: AP

   Man  closes  door  of  Iranian  nuclear  physics professor Massoud Ali
   Mohammadi's  home, after he was killed in bomb blast in Tehran, 12 Jan
   2010

   A  bomb  attack  in  Tehran  has  killed  an  Iranian  nuclear physics
   professor.
   Officials  say  a  bomb-rigged  motorbike exploded Tuesday outside the
   home  of  Dr. Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a nuclear scientist and professor
   at Tehran University.
   State  television  blamed  the  blast  on  U.S. and Israeli agents and
   described Mohammadi as a supporter of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that
   brought the Islamic clerics to power.
   However, pro-reform Web sites had published Mohammadi's name on a list
   of  university  teachers  who  supported opposition leader Mir Hossein
   Mousavi in the the June presidential election.
   Iran's opposition accuses President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of rigging the
   June  vote  to  win  re-election  and has been staging anti-government
   protests for the past six months.
   It  is  not clear if Mohammadi is connected to Iran's nuclear program,
   which the West suspects is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon.
   Iran insists its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes only.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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