Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Iranian scientists targeted in car bombings

By Thomas Erdbrink
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

TEHRAN - A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist was killed Monday and a second was seriously wounded in nearly simultaneous car bomb attacks in the Iranian capital, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

The explosions, which occurred near Shahid Beheshti University, were the latest in a string of recent assassination attempts in which five doctors and professors have been killed in Tehran.
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