The Tehran commute is dangerous if you help make nukes: another scientist explodes

A university professor and department head of a uranium enrichment facility was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, in an incident that resembled similar  attacks on nuclear scientists in the city more than one year ago.

The semi-official Iranian FARS news agency cited witnesses as saying a motorcyclist attached a bomb to the side of the car, a Peugeot 405, in Ketabi square in eastern Tehran. The car then exploded, killing one and injuring two people inside. Witnesses told Reuters that a pedestrian was also killed in the bombing. FARS identified the victim as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. State-run Press TV said he was a university professor.

A security official told IRNA that the incident looked like previous terrorist attacks on nuclear scientists by agents of the Zionist regime.  But, he admitted, the morning rush hour in Tehran can be a killer.
A senior Israeli official on Wednesday gave a cryptic reaction to a car bomb which killed an Iranian nuclear scientist, saying he was unaware who did it but calling it an act of “revenge.”

”I don’t know who took revenge on the Iranian scientist, but I am definitely not shedding a tear,” Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai wrote on his official Facebook page.

The Guardian lists some of the other victims of the commute. Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi was killed on January 12 2010, when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near his...as he was preparing to leave for work.

In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back bomb attacks in different parts of the capital killed one nuclear s.... Majid Shahriari, the scientist who died, was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. The wounded scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, was subsequently appointed head of Iran's atomic agency.

And in July 2011, motorcycle-riding gunmen killed Darioush Rezaeinejad, whom initial Iranian reports described as a scientist involved in the country's nuclear programme. Officials later denied Rezaeinejad had any links to the program, but blamed his killing on the US and Israel anyway. An unnamed official suggested that, in the future, nuclear scientists would ride skateboards to work.