Commander: Enemies Assassinating Scientists to Block Iran’s Scientific Growth

Enemies have resorted to the assassination of Iranian scientists in a bid to block the country’s huge scientific progress, a senior IRGC commander said.

Addressing a gathering in Tehran’s Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami lauded Iran’s great scientific achievements, and noted that Iranian scientists’ ability to overcome problems and surpass the world’s great scientific capabilities was the main reason behind their assassination.

“Today, we are among the leading countries in fields such as nanotechnology and nuclear, aerospace, biological and agricultural sciences,” Salami added.

Meantime, Salami underscored that enemies of the Islamic Republic are unable to undermine the Iranian nation’s will and firm determination, “because we have passed through the field equation today”.

In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, terrorists killed a 32-year-old Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and his driver on January 11, 2012.

The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.

The assassination method used in the bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoon Abbassi Davani – who is now the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization – and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred.

Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011.