Dr. Saeed Shamghadri, an associate professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology, along with his children Mohammad and Reyhane, achieved martyrdom in the early hours of today following a terrorist and criminal attack by the American-Zionist enemy on their residence in Tehran.
A History of Targeted Killings of Iranian Scientists
The assassination of Dr. Shamghadri is the latest in a long-running series of targeted killings of Iranian scientists and academics, operations by Israeli attacks and part of a campaign aimed at disrupting Iran's scientific and nuclear advancements. Since 2007, at least half a dozen prominent Iranian scientists have been assassinated in Israeli terror attacks.
In January 2010, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at Tehran University, was killed by a remote-controlled motorcycle bomb outside his home. Later that same year, in November, two separate magnetic bomb attacks targeted nuclear engineers: Majid Shahriari, a professor at Shahid Beheshti University, was killed when a magnetic bomb attached to his car was detonated by motorcycle assailants, while Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, a nuclear physicist who would later head Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, survived a similar attack on his vehicle.
In July 2011, Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electrical engineer specializing in high-voltage switches for nuclear applications, was shot five times by motorcycle gunmen near his home. Six months later, in January 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a polymer engineer and supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car in Tehran.
Another terror attack came in November 2020 with the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of Iran's nuclear scientists. He was killed using a remote-controlled machine gun.
On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran, assassinating many nuclear scientists and ordinary civilians. More than a week later, the US entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites.
The new assassinations come amid heightened tensions following the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, which began on February 28.
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