UNESCO National Commission Condemns Assassination Of Iranian Scientist

UNESCO National Commission Condemns Assassination Of Iranian Scientist Tehran, Jan 15, IRNA – UNESCO’s National Commission in Iran in a statement condemned assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. The statement, a copy of which was made available to IRNA, said that the institute believes that assassination of the scientist is tantamount to the assassination of humanity and absence of a scientist is a great blow to peace and friendship among human beings. Ahmadi-Roshan, aged 32, was a graduate of Sharif University and supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province. He was killed in a terrorist attack. In the incident, a motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car near a building of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran. Ahmadi Rowshan was the deputy director of marketing at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. He was one of several Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated in recent years. The terrorist attack took place shortly after Iran reached an agreement with the Group5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany--to hold negotiations in Turkey. The US, Israel and their allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and have used this allegation as a pretext to convince the United Nations Security Council to impose four rounds of sanctions on Iran./end