Mostafa ahmadi roshan biography of christopher
Mostafa ahmadi roshan biography of christopher
Fourth iranian nuclear scientist killed in car blast...
A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
Andrea Klein
February 27, 2012
Submitted as coursework for PH241, Stanford University, Winter 2012
In January of this year, Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was commuting to work when a motorcyclist attached a magnetized bomb to the side of his car.
[1] The resulting explosion killed both Roshan and his bodyguard-driver, and Iranian accounts report that the assassin escaped back into the early morning rush hour traffic. Roshan's is only the latest in a string of deaths and disappearances that have thinned the ranks of Iran's top physicists and exacerbated international tension over Iran's nuclear program.
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Similar attacks in 2010 killed nuclear specialist Majid Shahriari and and injured another nuclear physicist, Fereydoon Abbasi, who now runs Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. As early as 2007, nuclear scientist Ardeshir Hosseinpour reportedly died of gas poisoning.
[2] Roshan also had nuclear ties; in addition to his work as a p