Iranian Nuke Scientist Killed

(by AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, 7/23/11):  A nuclear scientist was shot dead on Saturday by unknown assailants on a motorcycle, the latest expert with links to Iran’s controversial atomic program to be targeted, local media reported.

“A physics professor and nuclear scientist was assassinated a few hours ago in front of his house in Tehran,” Mehr news agency reported.

The ISNA news agency identified the victim as Dariush Rezaei, 35, an expert with links to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Fars news agency said he was also associated with the defence ministry.

Top provincial security official Safar Ali Baratlou told the ILNA news agency that no one had yet been arrested in connection with the shooting.

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