[DOWNLOAD] "Attacks on Nuclear Scientists in Tehran (Scientists)" by The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon) # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Attacks on Nuclear Scientists in Tehran (Scientists)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 11, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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On the morning of Nov. 29, two Iranian scientists involved in Iran's nuclear development program were attacked. One was killed, and the other was injured. According to Iranian media, the deceased, Dr. Majid Shahriari, was heading the team responsible for developing the technology to design a nuclear reactor core. On the opposite side of town, Dr. Fereidoon Abassi was injured in a bomb attack reportedly identical to the one that killed Shahriari. His wife, who was accompanying him was also injured. Abassi is perhaps even more closely linked to Iran's nuclear program than Shahriari, since he was a member of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and was named in a 2007 UN resolution that sanctioned high-ranking members of Iran's defense and military agencies believed to be trying to obtain nuclear weapons. The incidents occurred at a time of uncertainty over how global powers and Iran's neighbors will handle an Iran apparently pursuing nuclear weapons despite its claims of developing only a civilian nuclear program and asserting itself as a regional power in the Middle East. Through economic sanctions that went into effect last year, the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany (known as the "P-5+1") have been pressuring Iran to enter negotiations over its nuclear program and outsource the most sensitive aspects of the program, such as higher levels of uranium enrichment.