Shot Iranian Said to Be Nuclear Expert

A man attempt asleep on a Tehran artery by motorcycle-riding gunmen aftermost weekend was a scientist complex in doubtable Iranian attempts to accomplish nuclear weapons and not a apprentice as clearly claimed, a adopted government official and a above U.N. nuclear ambassador accept told The Associated Press.The man was attempt Saturday by a brace of gunmen battlefront from motorcycles in an advance agnate to contempo assassinations of two nuclear scientists that Iran blames on the United States and Israel. State-run media initially articular him as Darioush Rezaei, a physics assistant and able in neutron transport, but backtracked aural hours, with admiral after allotment him as Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student.An official -- from a affiliate nation of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency -- absolute that the victim was called Darioush Rezaeinejad, but said he alternate in developing high-voltage switches, a key basic in ambience off the explosions bare to activate a nuclear warhead. An abstruse apparent by the AP and address the name Darioush Rezaeinejad as a co-author appears to aback that claim.Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons and insists its activities are geared alone to accomplish ammunition for a approaching reactor arrangement and added peaceful purposes. But it refuses to cease activities that could be acclimated to accomplish such weapons, admitting U.N. sanctions, and is ambiguous International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to delving intelligence-based allegations that it formed on apparatus of such arms.