Blast kills Iranian nuclear scientist

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A remotely controlled bomb detonated in Tehran Tuesday, killing an Iranian nuclear physicist, police said.

Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, who lectures at Tehran University, was killed near his home in northern Tehran when a motorbike parked near his car exploded, Iran's Press TV reported.

Security officials said the equipment and system of the bomb had been linked to several foreign intelligence agencies, singling out Israel's Mossad, the government-sponsored broadcaster said.

Iranian state media blamed "Zionist and American agents" for planting the device that killed the neutron nuclear physics professor, the BBC reported.

"No suspect has been arrested yet," Tehran's prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi told the Iranian Students News Agency.

Police have blocked off the area and begun investigating the incident, the BBC said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion.