Officials Say Shot Iranian was Nuclear Scientist, Not a Student as Tehran Claims

July 28, 2011

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Associated Press

The man assassinated in Tehran recently was a physicist involved in Iran's nuclear weapon program named Rezaeinejad, according to a foreign government official. Rezaeinejad allegedly worked on high voltage switches that could be used to detonate a nuclear warhead. Iranian state media has claimed that the victim was a university student named Darioush Rezaeinejad.