Darioush Rezaeinejad
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Darioush Rezaeinejad was an Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian shot dead in east Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 by gunmen in July 2011 while he and his wife waited for their child outside a kindergarten. At the time of his killing he was described by officials as a "nuclear scientist" and an academic associated with Iran's atomic activities, but days later as a postgraduate electrical engineering masters student at Tehran's K.N.Toosi University of Technology
K.N.Toosi University of Technology
Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology , is a public university in Tehran, Iran, named after medieval Persian scholar Khajeh Nasir Toosi.-History:...

, who was waiting to defend his thesis.

When news of the assassination broke, the speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani
Ali Larijani
Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian philosopher, politician and the chairman of the Iranian parliament. Larijani was the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from August 15, 2005 to October 20, 2007, appointed to the position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,replacing Hassan Rowhani...

, suggested the United States
United States
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 and Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 had killed Rezaeinejad. A U.S. State Department
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...

 spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, stated, "We were not involved. Our sympathies are obviously with the family of the victim." Rezaeinejad is the fourth scientist "allegedly associated" with Iran's nuclear weapons program to have been killed by bomb, gunshot or poisoning since 2007.

Claim of Mossad responsibility

On August 2, 2011, German news website Spiegel Online
Spiegel Online
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 published an article named "Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source", claiming receiving information from "an Israeli intelligence source", linking Israeli Mossad
Mossad
The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....

to the assassination of Darioush Rezaeinejad, described as Iranian nuclear scientist. The report was reprinted by several news agencies, yet without providing additional sources to confirm the information.

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