University professor killed in bombing in Tehran: TV

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·Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, professor of the Tehran University was killed by a bomb. ·Local ISNA news agency reported that the professor was a nuclear scientist. ·IRIB accused "the U.S. and Zionist (Israel) agents" of being involved in the terror attack.

An undated image released by Iran's Fars News Agency of Tehran University professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi who was killed by a bomb in front of his home in north Tehran January 12, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A university professor was killed Tuesday in a bombing in Tehran, local English-language Press TV reported.

According to the report, Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, professor of the Tehran University was killed by a remote control bomb attached to a motorbike.

The explosion took place near the professor's home in Qeytariyeh neighborhood, in northern Tehran, Press TV said.

Local ISNA news agency reported that the professor was a nuclear scientist.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) said on its website that Mohammadi who was "a committed and revolutionary Tehran University professor" was killed in a "terrorist act by counter-revolutionary and arrogant powers' elements."

An image grab taken from Iran's Press TV station shows the Iranian security forces are inspecting the scene of explosion in Tehran, Jan. 12, 2009. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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IRIB also accused "the U.S. and Zionist (Israel) agents" of being involved in the terror attack.

"By the bomb which the U.S. and Zionist agents had already placed near his house, two cars and a motorbike were severely damaged and the window glasses of the nearby houses broke," IRIB said.

"The intelligence systems of the country are investigating the hidden dimensions of the incident and are tracing the Zionist agents involved in this terror attack," the report added without more elaboration.

Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted an unnamed policeman as saying that the number of victims during the bomb blast was still uncertain.

A video grab of a pool of blood at the site of a bomb blast in Tehran, January 12, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Official: Iran sees traces of U.S., Israeli involvement in bomb attack

  TEHRAN, Jan.12 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehman-Parast said Tuesday that there are traces of U.S. and Israeli involvement in Tehran's bomb attack on Tuesday, the state IRIB TV reported.

"In the preliminary investigations there can be seen the traces of the triangular villainy of the U.S., Zionist regime and their agents in Iran's terror attack," Mehman-Parast was quoted as saying.  

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