Darioush Rezaeinejad
Darioush Rezaeinejad (Persian: داریوش رضایینژاد; c. 1976 – 23 July 2011; also Dariush Rezaei-Nejad) was an Iranian engineering student shot dead in east Tehran by gunmen in July 2011.
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[edit] Assasination
Darioush was killed by motorcycle borne gunmen in July 2011, while waiting with his wife for their child outside a kindergarten. His wife was also wounded in the attack.[1]
Initial reports, including from the semi-official ISNA agency, identified the victim as Darioush Rezaei, a 46-year old physicist known to be involved in Iran's nuclear program.[2]
However, news agencies later confirmed the victim was not the nuclear physicist, but Darioush Rezaeinejad, a postgraduate electrical engineering masters student at Tehran's K.N.Toosi University of Technology, who was waiting to defend his thesis.[3][4]
When news of the assassination broke, the speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, suggested the United States and Israel had killed Rezaeinejad. A U.S. State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, stated, "We were not involved. Our sympathies are obviously with the family of the victim."[5] Rezaeinejad is the fourth scientist "allegedly associated" with Iran's nuclear weapons program to have been killed by bomb, gunshot or poisoning since 2007.[6]
[edit] Claim of Mossad responsibility
On August 2, 2011, German news website Spiegel Online published an article named "Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source", claiming receiving information from "an Israeli intelligence source", linking Israeli Mossad to the assassination of Darioush Rezaeinejad, described as Iranian nuclear scientist.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References and notes
- ^ "Iran: Scientist shot dead in Tehran". (BBC). 23 July 2011.
- ^ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4099003,00.html
- ^ "Iran denies assassinated academic worked on nuclear projects" | Saeed Kamali Dehghan | guardian.co.uk| 25 July 2011.
- ^ "Photo of the Day". (funeral) | news.yahoo.com.
- ^ "US denies killing scientist, presses Iran" (AFP). 25 July 2011.
- ^ "Who Is Killing Iran's Nuclear Scientists?" | By MATTHEW COLE and MARK SCHONE | July 26, 2011.
- ^ Ulrike Putz, "Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source", Spiegel Online, August 2, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Iranian Nuclear Physicist Killed in Tehran; Mossad Blamed (International Business Times, 23 July 2011)
- (German) Iran: USA und Israel hinter Tod eines Wissenschaftlers (Reuters, 24 July 2011); with picture
- (French) Un physicien nucléaire iranien tué par balle à Téhéran (AFP, 24 July 2011)
- Iran says no suspect of student terror act arrested (ISNA, 26 July 2011)
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