Students say Professor Masoud Mohammadi was a Government Critic

Two of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi’s students at Tehran University told a Los Angeles newspaper’s reporter in Tehran that the professor had been outspoken in recent months in support of antigovernment student demonstrators at the school. Last month the university was one of many campuses across Iran where protests in support of the opposition were held on the nation’s Students’ Day.

After the explosion on Tuesday, an opposition Web site published a list of teachers who openly supported the presidential candidacy of opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi before last year’s June’s election, apparently showing the professor’s name, underlined in red.

This list of ten scholarly publications by Mr. Ali-Mohammadi (or Alimohammadi) over the past decade suggests that the professor was “more of a theoretical particle physicist than a nuclear physicist.”

Source: New York Times