1. Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi was assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack here in Tehran on Tuesday.…The London-based armed opposition, the Kingdom Association, has claimed responsibility for the attack. …In related remarks, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast, in a statement, condemned the attack and took the Zionist regime of Israel and US hirelings inside Iran responsible for the terrorist operation.
2. jpost: scientist was Mousavi supporter — the implication being that the Iranian government must have killed him (wink wink)
A nuclear physics professor who publicly backed Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the disputed June presidential election was killed Tuesday when a remote-controlled bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up outside his home. …He was also not an outspoken or visible supporter of Iran’s opposition movement during the months of turmoil that have followed the election, though his name did appear on the list of professors who backed Mousavi before the vote. That list was published on several pro-reform Web sites in the weeks leading up to the vote. Mousavi and his supporters claim he was true winner of the June election but fraud robbed him of his victory. His supporters staged massive street protests in the weeks after the election, which met with a harsh government crackdown.
more at jpost: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147871003&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
3. son of influential Cyprus broadcaster shot dead
NICOSIA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — An unknown gunmen shot dead on Monday night a son of the owner of one of the most influential media groups in Cyprus. The dead man is Antis Hadjicostis, son of Costis Hadjicostis, owner of Dias Media Group which owns a television station, a newspaper and several other publications. Antis Hadjicostis, aged 43 and father of two, was the director general of the group. Police said the victim was shot twice at close range while entering his house, a short distance away from the American and French embassies in an exclusive part of Nicosia. The gunman got away on a high powered motorcycle driven by another man. The father of the victim is considered by United Nations officials in Cyprus and some western foreign embassies as a political king-maker who can exert influence on a large portion of Greek Cypriots in connection with a future solution of the Cyprus problem. Police said it was too early to make sure about the possible motives of the murder.
