Rahpouyan News Agency: After Nuke Scientist's Murder, Iranian Students Switch Majors to Nuclear Sciences: Official

After Nuke Scientist's Murder, Iranian Students Switch Majors to Nuclear
Sciences: Official
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    on 2012-01-18 23:37:00
 
Approximately 1,300 Iranian university students have applied to switch  their
majors to the field of nuclear sciences following the  assassination of a top
nuclear expert in Iran.
"Three hundred talented students at Sharif University  and about a thousand
brilliant students at the country's universities  have applied in recent days to
change their major and start studying  nuclear physics and nuclear engineering,"
Kamran Daneshjo, Iranian Minister of Science Research and Technology, said in a
press conference Monday, according to Iran's Tehran Times.
Daneshjo's comments came five days after the assassination of 32-year-old
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan,  a former graduate of Sharif University and, until his
death, the deputy  director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, according
to Iranian media.
Roshan was killed Jan. 11 when a magnetic explosive device was slipped  under
his car by a motorcyclist and then detonated, according to Iranian  news
reports. He is the fourth Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in the past two
years. Iranian officials swiftly blamed the U.S. and Israel for having a hand in
the murder.