Showing posts with label Tehran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tehran. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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

Iranian professor dies in Tehran bomb blast

An Iranian university professor of nuclear physics, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, has been killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran, Iranian media say. Iranian media describe him as a "devoted revolutionary professor" killed by "anti-revolutionary" groups.

It comes at a time of heightened tension in Iran, following June's disputed presidential election. Prof Mohammadi of Tehran University "was killed in a booby-trapped motorbike blast" in the city's Qeytariyeh district, Press TV said. Police sealed off the area and launched an investigation into the incident. No-one has claimed responsibility for the blast.

Source: BBC News