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VoA News: Iran Blames Israel, US In Death of Nuclear Scientist
Iranian officials are blaming Israeli and U.S. spy agencies for two separate bomb attacks in Tehran Monday that killed a prominent nuclear scientist and wounded another.
Iran media reported attackers on motorcycles attached bombs to two scientists’ cars early Monday as they were on their way to work at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran.
One of the blasts killed Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari and wounded his wife, who was in the car with him. The other blast wounded nuclear physicist Fereidoun Abbasi and his wife.
Iran media and officials blamed the CIA and Israel’s Mossad.
Attackers have killed at least two other Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years.
Western nations accuse Iran of pursuing nuclear technology in order to make nuclear weapons – a charge Tehran denies.
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