Azerbaijan , Baku, July 24 / Trend /
Iranian Speaker Ali Larijani denouncing assassination of Rezaei-Nejad said that this "American-Sionist" plan shows enmity of U.S. against Iranians, reported IRNA.
Funeral of Iranian student that was assassinated on saterday be held today, fars news agency reported.
An Iranian man who named a nuclear scientist as initially reported by Iranian medias was an electronics student, Fars News Agency reported.
The 35-year-old Dariush Rezaei-Nejad was shot down in front of his residence by two men on a motorcycle. His wife and child were reportedly wounded in the attack and taken to a nearby hospital.
State media reported earlier Saturday that Rezaei-Nejad was a university professor and one of the experts at the Iranian Atomic Organization (IAO). Fars news agency, however, reported that Rezaei-Nejad was an electronics student and making his masters at the Khajeh Massir university in Tehran.
In late November 2010, Majid Shahriari, a physics professor and reportedly also an IAO member, was killed by a bomb attached to his car.
Iranian officials at the time accused agents of the United States and Israel of being behind the killing in a bid to intimidate Iran in the dispute over Tehran's nuclear programmes.