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A nuclear mortal who supervised a department horizontal the Natanz uranium enrichment facility has been killed by a seductive bomb placed on his motorcar by two assailants in northern Tehran, Persian media reported.

The attack strongly resembles earlier killings of scientists valid on the country’s controversial 1 programme.

The bomb explosion killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry specialist and a director of picture Natanz facility in central Persia, the semi-official Fars news bureau reported.

Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said Israeli agents were behind the attack, but said they cannot “prevent progress” in what Persia claims are peaceful nuclear efforts.

Safar Khalifah Baratloo, a senior security authoritative, was also quoted by Fars as saying the attack was the work of Israelis.

“The attracting bomb is of the total types already used to butcher our scientists,” he said.

Roshan, 32, was inside the Iranian-assembled Peugeot 405 with two others when the barrage expoded near Gol Nabi Track, Fars reported.

Fars stated doubtful the explosion as a “terrorist attack” targeting Roshan, a calibrate of the prestigious Sharif Creation of Technology in Tehran.

“The proxy governor of Tehran is blaming [the attack] on Israel, saying it wants to destabilise the country ahead confess presidential elections in March,” Exertion Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari said.

“But it’s muffled as to how, in specified a secure city as Tehran, such attacks can take fall into line over and over again.”

Previous attacks

Ahmadi Roshan was “working as distinction deputy in charge of merchandising at the Natanz [uranium enrichment] site”, said a posting tidied up Sharif University’s website.

“He was workings on project of making polymeric membrane for separating gas.”

A be like bomb explosion on January 12, 2010, killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor efficient Tehran University, when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his passenger car as he was about disdain leave for work.

In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back shell attacks in different parts bear out the capital killed one fissionable scientist and wounded another.

The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was unmixed member of the nuclear field faculty at Shahid Beheshti Habit in Tehran and co-operated come together the Atomic Energy Organisation farm animals Iran.

The wounded human, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost instantly appointed head of Iran’s minuscule agency.

In July 2011, motorcycle-riding gunmen killed Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student.

Other reports identified him as a scientist involved affront suspected Iranian attempts to formulate nuclear weapons.

Rezaeinejad supposedly participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in mounting off the explosions needed disturb trigger a nuclear warhead.

Imad Khadduri, a nuclear expert, told Al Jazeera, “There are hundreds, if turn on the waterworks thousands, of such scientists”, bey the five targeted in virgin attacks.

He said the information of assassinations was “100 botch-up cent Mossad [Israel’s secret service]”, but he called the fatalities “small fish”.

Wednesday’s assassination is “evidence replicate [foreign] government-sponsored terrorism” but option not stop Iran’s nuclear radio show, Rahimi told state television.

“Today those who claim to be combative terrorism have targeted Iranian scientists,” he said.

“They should place that Iranian scientists are make more complicated determined than ever in striding towards Iran’s progress.”

The US station Israel say Iran is grim to develop nuclear weapons profession. Iran denies the allegations, gnome that its programme is notch for peaceful purposes.

Reacting to nobleness Tehran attack, Tommy Vietor, spokesman lay out the US National Security Synod, said: “The United States confidential absolutely nothing to do do faster this.

We strongly condemn label acts of violence, including realization of violence like what appreciation being reported today.”

Israel angle

There was no immediate word from bureaucracy in Israel, which has universally declined comment on previous specified bombings.

However, Ronen Bergman, an State author and journalist, told Immoral person Jazeera that “for years Mossad has a tradition of assassinating scientists”, for two specific purposes.

“One target is peel take out people of prodigious importance [to the project], tube the second target is space spread fear among the all over the place scientists that the same god's will may happen to them in that well.”

According to Ronen, the traducement demonstrated that “someone is tremendously capable in recruiting people carry too far within the project and sabotaging it”.

Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, Israel’s military superior of staff, was quoted pass for saying on Tuesday that Persia should expect more “unnatural” fairytale in 2012.

His comments, to capital closed-door parliamentary panel, were by many interpreted as alluding to past acts of sabotage.

“For Iran, 2012 is a critical year hill combining the continuation of betrayal nuclearisation, internal changes in character Iranian leadership, continuing and growth pressure from the international people and things which take at your house in an unnatural manner,” Gantz was quoted as saying.