The assassination of the prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday near the capital Tehran brought back to mind the subject of the assassination of a group of Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years, and some circles described Fakhri Zadeh as the leader of a secret program to develop a nuclear bomb that was stopped in 2003, but Iran denies this. Repeatedly, it says its nuclear program is civilian, aimed at generating energy.
The following is a series of assassinations that Iranian nuclear scientists have suffered since 2010:
Mustafa Ahmadi Roshen
Roshen, a 32-year-old chemical engineer, was killed in the explosion of a sticky bomb in his car that a motorcyclist placed in Tehran in January 2012. Iran said that the dead man was a nuclear scientist who oversaw a section of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and Tehran blamed the attack on Israel and the United States.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is the most important figure in Iran's nuclear program and is referred to as Abdul Qadir Khan (father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb) of Iran, who dreamed of building a nuclear bomb for the Iranian regime of the Wilayat al-Faqih.
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Dariush Rezaei
Gunmen shot him when he was 35 years old, east of Tehran, on July 23, 2011. He was a lecturer at the university and holds a doctorate in physics.
The Iranian Deputy Interior Minister said at the time that the dead man had no connection to the Iranian nuclear program, after reports in some media outlets indicated such a link.
Majeed Shahryari
His wife was killed and injured in a car bomb explosion in Tehran on November 29, 2010, and Iranian officials said the accident was "an Israeli or American-sponsored attack on the country's nuclear program."
The Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, as saying at the time that Shahryari had a role in one of the largest nuclear projects in the country, without disclosing more.
The dead man was a lecturer at Shahid Beheshti University.
Fereydoun Abbasi Dawani
The scientist and his wife were injured in a car bomb explosion the same day that Majid Shahryari was killed.
"This terrorist act was carried out by intelligence agencies such as the US Central Intelligence Agency -" CIA "-, Mossad and" MI6 ", which is the name of British intelligence, said the Iranian intelligence minister at the time, Haider Moslehi.
Dawani held the position of Vice President and Director of the Atomic Energy Organization in February 2011, according to Fars News Agency at the time, but the Islamic Republic News Agency reported that he was removed from his post in August 2013. The United Nations imposed sanctions on Abbasi Dawani, who was the head of the department. Physics at Imam Hussein University, because of what Western officials said was his participation in what was suspected to be research into developing nuclear weapons.
Masoud Ali Mohammadi
He was killed by a remote-bomb detonation on January 12, 2010 in Tehran. Some Iranian opposition websites said that Mohammadi was supporting the reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in a disputed presidential election in 2009 that granted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term.
Iranian officials described Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a physics professor, as a nuclear scientist, but a spokesman said he did not work for the Atomic Energy Organization.
And he was lecturing at the University of Tehran.
Western sources said he worked closely with Fakhrizadeh and Fereydoun Abbasi Dawani, both of whom were subject to UN sanctions for their work in activities suspected of developing nuclear weapons.
A Western professor of physics said that a list of research papers published by Ali Mohammadi on the website of the University of Tehran indicated that his major was theoretical particle physics, not nuclear energy.