– Fereydoun Abbasi, also a professor at Shahid Besheshti University, was wounded in an identical attack on same day. Three months later, he was promoted to become head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation.
– Darioush Rezaei-Nejad, who was studying for a masters degree in electronics at Khajeh-Nasir Tousi University, was shot dead in Tehran in July 2011. Reports suggest he was a graduate of Malek-e-Ashtar University, which is affiliated to Iran’s defence ministry.
– General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the head of Iran’s ballistic missile programme, was killed in an explosion at military base outside Tehran on 12 November 2011.
– Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, a chemist who worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was killed by a bomb attached to his car window in Tehran on 11 January 2011.
In total, 5 Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007. Another has been wounded and one more has disappeared. In addition, the head of Iran’s ballistic missile programme has been killed and a deputy defence minister disappeared.
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