An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed Tuesday by a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle parked outside his home, state news outlets reported. Government-controlled media reports blamed the attack on "anti-revolutionary" elements within the country and on Iran's foreign foes.
Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, described by his colleagues as a non-political person, was killed as he left his house in the north Tehran neighborhood of Qetariyeh. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said Ali-Mohammadi was a nuclear scientist.
The rare bomb attack comes amid tensions between the government and a vocal grassroots opposition movement and international pressure over Iran's controversial nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed only at energy production and other peaceful activities but the United States and its allies believe is focused on creating nuclear weapons.
Iran has accused the United States of kidnapping a nuclear scientist who was on pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in May, and of snatching a former deputy minister of defense who disappeared early in 2007 while visiting Istanbul.
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