Iranian academic killed, two injured

An Iranian academic has been killed and another university professor and his wife wounded in two separate car explosions in Tehran.

Yet unknown terrorists exploded the cars of Doctor Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasiin in separate places on Monday morning, IRNA reported.

Shahriari was killed immediately, but Professor Abbasi and his wife received injuries and were transferred to hospital.

The two were professors at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.