Iran nuclear scientist killed by bomb

A Tehran University scientist was killed on Tuesday when a remote-controlled bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up outside his home.

The victim was identified as 50-year-old Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a nuclear physics professor at Tehran University. The institution has been at the center of recent protests by student opposition supporters.

The country's State TV said Ali Mohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the remote-controlled explosion went off.

The blast shattered the windows of his home in a neighborhood in northern Tehran, leaving the pavement outside smeared with blood and strewn with debris.

An undated image released by Iran's Fars News Agency of Tehran University professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi who was killed by a bomb in front of his home in north Tehran January 12, 2010.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)