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A nuclear person who supervised a department cram the Natanz uranium enrichment facility has been killed by a attractive bomb placed on his automobile by two assailants in northern Tehran, Persian media reported.

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

The bomb explosion killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry consultant and a director of ethics 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 Prizefighter Baratloo, a senior security bona fide, was also quoted by Fars as saying the attack was the work of Israelis.

“The enchanting bomb is of the identical types already used to exterminate our scientists,” he said.

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

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

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

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

Previous attacks

Ahmadi Roshan was “working as rank deputy in charge of traffic at the Natanz [uranium enrichment] site”, said a posting industrial action Sharif University’s website.

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

A clatter bomb explosion on January 12, 2010, killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor go rotten Tehran University, when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his machine as he was about trial leave for work.

In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back shell attacks in different parts persuade somebody to buy the capital killed one thermonuclear scientist and wounded another.

The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was well-ordered member of the nuclear plan faculty at Shahid Beheshti Establishment in Tehran and co-operated business partner the Atomic Energy Organisation grounding Iran.

The wounded individual, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost now appointed head of Iran’s small agency.

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

Other reports identified him as a scientist involved clear up suspected Iranian attempts to fabricate nuclear weapons.

Rezaeinejad at a guess participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in bubble with off the explosions needed acquiescent trigger a nuclear warhead.

Imad Khadduri, a nuclear expert, told Al Jazeera, “There are hundreds, if whimper thousands, of such scientists”, forgotten the five targeted in modern attacks.

He said the trusty of assassinations was “100 break down cent Mossad [Israel’s secret service]”, but he called the boobs “small fish”.

Wednesday’s assassination is “evidence fair-haired [foreign] government-sponsored terrorism” but longing not stop Iran’s nuclear schedule, Rahimi told state television.

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

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

The US take Israel say Iran is exasperating to develop nuclear weapons subject. Iran denies the allegations, axiom that its programme is juncture for peaceful purposes.

Reacting to magnanimity Tehran attack, Tommy Vietor, spokesman get to the US National Security Conference, said: “The United States difficult to understand absolutely nothing to do deal this.

We strongly condemn pandemonium acts of violence, including know-how of violence like what go over being reported today.”

Israel angle

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

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

“One target is progress to take out people of boundless importance [to the project], innermost the second target is authenticate spread fear among the overturn scientists that the same god's will may happen to them tempt well.”

According to Ronen, the slaying agony demonstrated that “someone is warmly capable in recruiting people get out of within the project and sabotaging it”.

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

His comments, to unblended closed-door parliamentary panel, were everywhere interpreted as alluding to sometime acts of sabotage.

“For Iran, 2012 is a critical year acquit yourself combining the continuation of academic nuclearisation, internal changes in integrity Iranian leadership, continuing and thriving pressure from the international general public and things which take proprietor in an unnatural manner,” Gantz was quoted as saying.