Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
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Biography
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan (Persian: مصطفی احمدی روشن) (born: 1979, in Hamedan) was an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated in 2012. He was also commerce deputy of "Natanz nuclear power plant".
Life
Ahmadi Roshan (also known as "Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan" after the assassination) was born on 8 September 1979 in the village of Sangestan in Hamedan province, and passed his childhood in a poor family. This Iranian nuclear scientist was among the students of Aziz Khoshvaght (who was known as an [Islamic] moralist), and did his education in the field of Polymer engineering at Sharif University of Technology, and had several ISI articles in English/Persian when he was approximately 32 years old.
Family
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's wife was "Fatemeh Boluri-Kashani", who studied at chemistry subject at Sharif University (master's degree). His father was Rahim Ahmadi-Roshan; his mother was "Sedigheh Salari"; and his only child (Ali-Reza) was four years old when Mostafa was assassinated.
Assassination
Ahmadi Roshan who is considered as the last assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist after Masoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari, Darioush Rezaeinejad, was finally assassinated on 11 January 2012 by motorbike bomb attack at half pass eight (in the morning) in the vicinity of Seyyed Khandan locality in Tehran.
Natanz Enrichment Site
Considering that some of Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated in recent years, a number of students from diverse universities of the country sent letters to Iranian authorities, and asked them to change the names of Iran "nuclear facilities" and "enrichment sites" to Iranian assassinated nuclear scientists. As a result, their titles changed to 5 of those nuclear scientists. Among of them, was ahmadi Roshan; and Natanz enrichment site's name has been changed to "The site of Shahid Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan".