(12 Jan 2010) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of people gathered at blast scene
2. Welder working at blast scene
3. Pan from welder working to wide of crowd gathered at blast scene
4. Tilt-up from smashed glass and debris to people
5. Low angle of damaged building
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Vox pop, no name given, witness:
"It was about 7.30 a.m that I heard a massive explosion and the building strongly trembled and I thought it was an earthquake. I was just getting up, I went outside and saw uproar. Everywhere was covered with smoke and the aftermath of the blast. I don''t know what to say."
7. Exterior of house
8. Damaged door of house
9. Tilt-up of damaged building with shattered windows
10. Low angle of broken window
11. Tilt-up from debris to people
12. Wide of workers clearing area
STORYLINE
A nuclear physics professor at Tehran University was killed on Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran''s capital, state media reported.
Massoud Ali Mohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the remote-controlled explosion went off, state TV said.
State media blamed the killing on the West, which is locked in a tense confrontation with Iran over its nuclear programme.
One news Website associated with a prominent member of the country''s clerical leadership singled out the United States and Israel, saying the assassination was probably the work of an armed Iranian opposition group under the direction of Israeli agents.
The blast shattered the windows of Mohammadi''s home in northern Tehran''s Qeytariyeh neighbourhood and left the pavement outside smeared with blood and strewn with debris.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as confirming the killing and saying no one has been arrested.
Neither report said whether the 50-year-old Mohammadi was connected to Iran''s nuclear programme, which the West suspects is aimed at developing a nuclear weapons capability.
Iran denies having any intention to produce weapons and insists its nuclear work only has peaceful aims, such as energy production.
A government news Website, Borna, described Mohammadi as a senior nuclear scientist but gave no other details.
Mohammadi was the author of several articles on quantum and theoretical physics in scientific journals.
He also was a member of some academic associations focusing on experimental science, but he did not appear to have any high-profile role in promoting Iran''s nuclear programme.
He received his doctorate in 1992 from the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
Iran''s suspicions for the assassination fell on exiled opposition group the People''s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran and Israeli agents, said the news Web site Tabnak.
The Tabnak site is closely associated with Mohsen Rezaei, who serves on an advisory body to the country''s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Web site of Iran''s state television declared the bombing a "terrorist act by counter revolutionaries and elements of arrogance," a reference to the United States.
Security forces are investigating, the report said.
Amiri worked at a university linked to the elite Revolutionary Guard military corps and his wife said he was researching medical uses of nuclear technology at a university.
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