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Jamali-Fashi confessed to having attached a remote-control bomb to a motorcycle parked on the street, which detonated and killed Ali-Mohammadi while he was leaving home for work in January 2010.

But seasoned observers questioned whether it was a show trial intended to cover-up Iran’s embarrassment over its failure to protect its nuclear scientists……

n recent years, Iran’s nuclear programme has experienced a series of setback after the assassinations of its scientists and the Stuxnet computer worm, which was designed to sabotage its atomic facilities and halt its uranium-enrichment programme. The malware is believed to have targeted a control system used in Iran’s nuclear sites in July last year.

In November, Majid Shahriari, a nuclear scientist, was killed and Fereidoon Abbasi Davani, Iran’s current atomic chief, survived assassination in two similar attacks to the one which Ali-Mohammadi died.

In July, an Iranian academic, Darioush Rezaeinejad was shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles. He was initially described by state media as a nuclear scientist but officials later denied he was involved in Iran’s atomic programme. Rumours spread that at the time that the 35-year-old masters student might have been mistakenly killed instead of a nuclear scientist with a similar name, Darioush Rezaei.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/23/iran-nuclear-scientist-assassination-trial