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| Iran car explosion 'kills nuclear scientist' in Tehran | Iran car explosion 'kills nuclear scientist' in Tehran |
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| A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran, reports say. | A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran, reports say. |
| Iranian media sources named the casualty as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Reuters news agency reports. | Iranian media sources named the casualty as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Reuters news agency reports. |
| The blast happened when a motorcyclist stuck a bomb on the side of the car, says Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. | The blast happened when a motorcyclist stuck a bomb on the side of the car, says Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. |
| Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in Iran in recent years. | |
| Tehran has blamed the killings on Israel and the US. Both countries deny the accusations. | |
| Local sources said Wednesday's blast took place at a faculty of Iran's Allameh Tabatai university. | |
| Two others were reportedly also injured in the blast, which took place near Gol Nabi Street, in the north of the capital. | Two others were reportedly also injured in the blast, which took place near Gol Nabi Street, in the north of the capital. |
| Mr Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was a graduate of oil industry university and supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province, Fars reported. | Mr Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was a graduate of oil industry university and supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province, Fars reported. |
| The latest attack comes almost two years to the day since Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a 50-year-old university lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb as he left his home in Tehran on 12 January 2010. | |
| Reports at the time described Dr Mohammadi as a nuclear physicist, but it later appeared that he was an expert in another branch of physics. | |
| There was also confusion as to whether the attack had any domestic political overtones because of reports about his apparent links to an opposition presidential candidate. | |
| However, in August 2011, an Iranian man - Majid Jamali Fashi - was sentenced to death for the killing, with state authorities saying he was paid by Israel's Mossad spy agency. Israel does not comment on such claims. | |
| Of the latest attack, Fars reports that the bombing method appears similar to another 2010 bombing which injured former university professor Fereydun Abbasi-Davani, now the head of the country's atomic energy organisation. | |
| There has been much controversy over Iran's nuclear activities. | |
| Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes, but the US and other Western nations suspect it of seeking to build nuclear weapons |