Announcing the death of Tehran University nuclear physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi Tuesday, Jan. 12, by a remote-controlled explosive motorbike as he was leaving home, Tehran does not say he was employed by its disputed nuclear program, although this is suggested by other sources. DEBKAfile's Iranian sources do not expect his death to slow the program down, but report that Iranian authorities are treating it as a new escalation of the Western effort to recruit, intimidate or liquidate the brains behind Iran's nuclear progress and a signal that the controversy has now being fought inside the Islamic Republic. Before launching their investigation, they lay the incident at the door of Israel or the exiled Mujaheddin Khalq dissidents.
Tehran has complained recently that experts associated with nuclear projects are being closely stalked.
They are already tightly quarantined and forbidden to travel overseas, their correspondence closely monitored since last year, when one of their number was apparently abducted while on a pilgrimage Saudi Arabia, a second defected to the West, a third choked to death and one or two others died in mysterious road accidents.
The Iranian Press TV announcement described Mohammadi, a senior Tehran University lecturer as a "staunch supporter" of the 1979 revolution that established the Iranian theocracy.
Police have sealed off the area for their investigation.
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