Majid Shahriari (1966-29 November 2010) was an Iranian nuclear scientist who worked for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran until his assassination in 2010.
Biography[]
Majid Shahriari was born in Zanjan, Iran in 1966, and he taught at the Iranian Army's Supreme National Defense University and specialized in neutron transport, a key facet of nuclear chain reactions in reactors and bombs. He and Aria Tahami became the chief scientists behind Iran's nuclear weapons program, and, on 29 November 2010, Israeli Mossad agents on a motorcycle planted explosives on the door of his colleague Fereydoon Abbasi's car and detonated it, killing Shahriari and severely wounding Abbasi and his wife.