Iranian Scientist Assassinated by Unknown Terrorists

Iran’s young scientist, Daryoush Rezayeenejad, was gunned down in the country’s capital city of Tehran by two unknown terrorists.
Rezayeenejad and his wife were on their way to their child’s kindergarten when they were approached by two men on motorbikes. The gunmen called him by name and shot Rezayeenejad, 35, in the neck when he turned around.

The gunmen chased Rezayeenejad’s wife who attempted to find help for her husband. She is currently in hospital.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Initially, local Iranian media had reported that Daryoush Rezayeenejad was a nuclear physicist.

The confusion was apparently cause by the similarity between his name and that of nuclear physicist Daryoush Rezayee.

Local sources also say that Rezayeenejad was working for the Iranian Defense Ministry.

On November 29, 2010, two other Iranian academics became the target of terrorist attacks.

Unidentified terrorists detonated bombs in the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi in separate locations in Tehran. Shahriari was killed immediately but Abbasi and his wife sustained injuries.

On December 2, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that Mossad, CIA and MI6 spy agencies played a role in those attacks.