Nuclear scientist killed by motorcycle bomb in Iran

An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Tehran today.

The victim was identified as Professor Massoud Mohammadi, who worked at Tehran University. He was killed near his home in a northern part of the capital by a booby-trapped motorcycle.

A senior Interior Ministry official, Mehdi Mohammadifar, said the motive for the bombing was under investigation.

"Apparently this man was a university professor who was killed close to his home this morning in an explosion," Mr Mohammadifar said.

The official IRNA news agency said it was not yet clear how many people were killed in the blast, suggesting there may be more than one victim.

Iran has been convulsed by its most serious domestic unrest since the Islamic revolution in 1979, as protests by opposition supporters against the election result have turned violent. Authorities deny opposition allegations that voting was rigged.

Eight people were killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters on Ashura, the day of ritual Shi'ite Muslim mourning that fell on December 27.

The blast occurred at a time of heightened tension in the Islamic Republic, seven months after a disputed presidential election plunged the country into turmoil. Such attacks are rare in Iran.

Iranian universities have been the scene of rival protests by opposition campaigners and government supporters since the June poll, which the reformist opposition says was rigged to secure the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

This same sort of thing started to happen right before the 79 revolution except it was drive-by shootings mostly from motorcycles. The victims were normally government officials, police or US military people. We had a rash of these right before I was rotated back to the US. A couple of weeks before I left, an Army officer and his driver were killed in front of his house about six homes down the street from ours.

This is what I was waiting to see to signal the serious start of the new revolution. It would have happened sooner if the “man-child” would have at least given serious moral support to the protestors back in June.

No articles that he is a author or co-author of indicates that he was a nuclear scientist:

Quantum attractors of generalized Gauss-Bonnet dark energy
M. Alimohammadi and N. Agharafiei
arXiv:0912.0589 (December 2009)
Remarks on generalized scalar-tensor models of dark energy
M. Alimohammadi and H. Behnamian
arXiv:0909.2717 (September 2009)
The phase-space of generalized Gauss-Bonnet dark energy
M. Alimohammadi and A. Ghalee
arXiv:0908.1150 (August 2009)
Class of solvable reaction-diffusion processes on Cayley tree
M. Alimohammadi and N. Olanj
arXiv:0904.0847 (April 2009)
Remarks on generalized Gauss-Bonnet dark energy
M. Alimohammadi and A. Ghalee
arXiv:0811.1286 (November 2008)
Quantum induced w = -1 crossing of the quintessence and phantom models
M. Alimohammadi and L. Sadeghian
arXiv:0806.0141 (June 2008)
Klein-Gordon and Dirac particles in non-constant scalar-curvature background
M. Alimohammadi and A. A. Baghjary
arXiv:0801.1366 (January 2008)
Comparison of Spline with Kriging in an Epidemiological Problem
Roshanak Alimohammadi
arXiv:0711.4883 (November 2007)
Asymptotic behavior of w in general quintom model
Masoud Alimohammadi
arXiv:0706.1360 (June 2007)
Non-Douglas-Kazakov phase transition of two-dimensional generalized Yang-Mills theories
M. Khorrami and M. Alimohammadi
hep-th/0703110 (March 2007)
Cosmological coincidence problem in interacting dark energy models
H. Mohseni Sadjadi and M. Alimohammadi
gr-qc/0610080 (October 2006)
The w = -1 crossing of the quintom model with slowly-varying potentials
M. Alimohammadi and H. Mohseni Sadjadi
gr-qc/0608016 (August 2006)
Transition from quintessence to phantom phase in quintom model
H. Mohseni Sadjadi and M. Alimohammadi
gr-qc/0605143 (May 2006)
Phase transitions of Large-N two-dimensional Yang-Mills and generalized Yang-Mills theories in the double scaling limit
M. Alimohammadi and M. Khorrami
hep-th/0604027 (April 2006)
Attractor solutions for general hessence dark energy
M. Alimohammadi and H. Mohseni Sadjadi
hep-th/0602268 (February 2006)
Solvable reaction-diffusion processes without exclusion
M. Alimohammadi
cond-mat/0601155 (January 2006)
Large-N behavior of the Wilson loops of generalized two-dimensional Yang-Mills theories
M. Khorrami and M. Alimohammadi
Abstract | Full Abstract | Full text | References | Citations text | References | Citations hep-th/0508069 (August 2005)

Check more here http://eprintweb.org/S/authors/All/A/M_Alimohammadi

“Except “Solvable reaction-diffusion processes without exclusion” — possible application to gaseous diffusion / separation of Uranium isotopes.”

No, if you read the article http://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.0847 you can see that it has no such applications.

If he was the author of the other articles he had no time to be more nuclear scientist than any random undergraduate physicist.

If this was an attempt to prevent Iran from working in the nuclear field they picked the wrong target.

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