Court upholds death sentence against assassin of Iranian nuclear scientist

TEHRAN, May 7 (MNA) - Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced on Sunday that the death sentence against Majid Jamali Fashi, who assassinated nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in 2010, had been upheld. Ali-Mohammadi, an elementary-particle physicist, was assassinated in a bomb attack on January 12, 2010. He had just left his home when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle was detonated.