More on Iranian physicist’s assassination

Blast site

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS| intelNews.org |
American intelligence and State Department officials, some anonymous, have denied any connection with the assassination yesterday of Iranian physicist Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, in Tehran. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that Ali-Mohammadi was among several Iranian researchers who had regular contacts with Israeli and Arab physicists, through a United Nations-sponsored scientific collaboration project based in Amman, Jordan. The program, known as Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), was focused on non-nuclear physics applications in the medical industry and nanotechnology. To further complicate the issue, the Iranian opposition issued a report late last night saying that photographs taken at the scene of the bombing shortly after the blast, reveal the presence at the site of Abu Nasser Hossein, assistant to Manif Ashmar, who is Hezbollah’s public face in Iran. It is also important to note that, although Ali-Mohammadi was a physicist, and a senior faculty member at the University of Tehran, his research interests had nothing to do with nuclear studies. One scientific observer reports that, “[i]f Ali-Mohammadi did work on nuclear bombs in his spare time, the evidence certainly isn’t in his published journal work, [which] explored [abstract ideas] concerning [things like] gravity and the belief that our universe continues to expand at an accelerated rate”.