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TEHRAN - An Iranian academic was killed in a terrorist attack in Tehran on Saturday afternoon. The scholar was identified as Dariush Rezaii, 45, who taught at Mohaqeq Ardebili Technical College, located in the northwestern city of Ardebil. According to an informed police official, the terrorists, who were riding a motorcycle, attacked the academic in Bani Hashem Street in eastern Tehran. The scholar’s wife was also injured in the attack, the official stated. Police has launched an investigation into the incident. On November 29, two prominent physicists were targeted by terrorists in two separate bombings. Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi Davani was injured in the attacks. The two academics were both on their way to work at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran when they were attacked. The police say that in both incidents, terrorists riding motorcycles attached magnetic bombs to the physicists’ cars. Iranian elementary-particle physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was also assassinated in a bomb attack in 2010. Ali-Mohammadi had just left his home when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle was detonated.
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