Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been targeted by the western imperialist states for regime change. The People's Republic of China has rejected calls for new sanctions in the United Nations Security Council.
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By Ladane Nasseri - Jan 19, 2011
Iran increased the protection of its scientists following the assassination of two physicists in the past year, Fars reported, citing Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar.
Iranian scientists will be given tips on potential threats and will warned about “possible contacts by the enemy and foreign spy agencies,” Iranian vice-president for science and technology, Nasrin Soltankhah, said last week, according to the state-run news agency.
Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a professor of elementary particle physics, was killed by a bomb outside his Tehran home in January 2010. Majid Shahriari, a scientist involved in Iran’s nuclear program, died in a Tehran bombing Nov. 29. A second blast in the capital on the same day injured Fereydoun Abasi, a physicist who was linked to the nuclear program in a 2007 United Nations resolution imposing sanctions on Iran.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ladane Nasseri in Tehran at lnasseri@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net
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