Iranians hold funeral for terror victim

Press TV - A funeral procession has been held for the Iranian nuclear scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was recently assassinated in a terrorist attack in Tehran.

On January 11, an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to the car of Iranian scientist Ahmadi Roshan near a college building of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran. He was immediately killed and his driver, who sustained injuries, died a few hours later in a hospital.

 

Ahmadi Roshan was a chemical engineering graduate of Iran's prominent Sharif University of Technology and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.

 

Muslim Iranians attended the funeral ceremony held in the Iranian capital after Friday prayers.

 

The mourners shouted slogans against the United States and Israel and called on the authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. 

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday condemned the assassination of Ahmadi Roshan and described it as an act of vengeance by hegemonic powers who failed to impede the country's progress. 

According to reports, Ahmadi Roshan had recently met International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, a fact which indicates that the IAEA has leaked information about Iran's nuclear facilities and scientists. 

Ahmadi Roshan is not the first Iranian nuclear scientist targeted by a terrorist attack. 

In November, 2010, Majid Shahriari, another scientist, was killed in a terrorist attack and Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi, the current head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, sustained some injuries.