Massoud Ali-Mohammadi

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Massud Ali-Mohammadi ( listen ? / I PersianAudio file / audio sample مسعود علی‌محمدی; * August 24, 1959 ; † January 12, 2010 in Tehran ) was an Iranian particle physicist and professor at the University of Tehran .

Life

Ali-Mohammadi holds a PhD in physics from Sharif University of Technology . In his publications he mainly dealt with cosmology, high-energy physics and quantum physics. On January 12, 2010, the theoretical particle physicist was killed in a bomb attack in Tehran. The Iran accused the United States and Israel of being involved in the assassination. The reason given was sabotage of the Iranian nuclear program .

The counter-argument is that Ali-Mohammadi was a theoretical particle physicist and not a nuclear physicist . In addition, the Iranian nuclear power authority officially denied that Ali-Mohammadi was employed by them. "With the embarrassing admission that Western secret services in Tehran operated at will, the regime wanted to support its thesis that foreign agents orchestrated the protests after the Iranian presidential elections in 2009 ," said Gary Sick , Iran expert at Columbia University of New York. According to unconfirmed reports from reformist circles, Ali-Mohammadi's name is on a list of academics who support Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi .

The media in connection with the murder Massoud Ali-Mohammadi to the so far unresolved poisoning Ardeshir Hossein Pours , one died in 2007. Iranian experts on electrodynamics, and the mysterious disappearance of the nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri recalls (2009).

Several thousand people attended the funeral on January 14, 2010 in Tehran. According to eyewitnesses, half of the mourners were supporters of the opposition, and some had green flags with them, the color of the opposition movement. There were fistfights between mourners and security forces.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Who murdered Prof. Ali-Mohammadi?" , PBS, January 13, 2010.
  2. ↑ List of publications. ut.ar.ir, archived from the original on July 22, 2011 (English).;
  3. ↑ Iran accuses USA and Israel of political murder , Zeit online , January 12, 2010.
  4. ↑ Iran accuses US, Israel in nuclear scientist murder PressTV , January 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ انرژی اتمی: علی محمدی استخدامی ما نبود ("Ali-Mohammadi was not employed by us") ( Memento of January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Tābnāk , January 12, 2010 (Persian).
  6. ↑ "Iran's population distrusts the official sabotage thesis" , Spiegel Online, January 13, 2010 (accessed April 4, 2010).
  7. ↑ "US denies killing Iran scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi" , BBC , January 12, 2010.
  8. ^ "Hundreds of opposition members protest at funeral" , Spiegel Online, January 14, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Ali-Mohammadi, Massoud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1959
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2010
Place of death Tehran