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Iran marks scientist death anniversary

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Iran has marked the first anniversary of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and his driver Reza Qashqaei, Press TV reports.

On January 11, 2012, an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to Ahmadi Roshan’s car near Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.

Ahmadi Roshan, a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and the deputy director of marketing at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, was killed immediately and his driver, who had sustained injures, passed away a few hours later at hospital.

“The assassination of one or two scientists will not slow down [Iran’s] nuclear program,” head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi, who was also a target of an assassination attempt in 2010, said on the sidelines of the ceremony.

Ahmadi Roshan’s assassination was the latest in a string of attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists.

On January 12, 2010, Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, was killed when an explosive-laden motorbike was blown up with a remote-controlled device near his home.

On November 29, 2010, Professor Majid Shahriari and Dr. Abbasi were targeted by terrorist attacks; Shahriari was killed immediately and Dr. Abbasi sustained injuries.

On July 23, 2011, unidentified gunmen killed Iranian scholar Dariush Rezaeinejad outside his house in Tehran.

Tehran has repeatedly held Israeli, US and British agents responsible for the assassination of the country’s nuclear scientists since early 2010.

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