(CBS/AP) Iran's state TV says separate but identical bomb attacks have killed a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in the capital, Tehran.
The state television website says attackers riding on motorcycles attached bombs to the car windows of the scientists as they were driving to their workplaces on Monday morning.
One bomb killed Majid Shahriari, a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at the Tehran University, and wounded his wife.
The second blast seriously wounded nuclear physicist Fereidoun Abbasi.
At least two other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years. Iran has said it suspects the attacks were part of a covert attempt by the West to undermine the country's nuclear program.
The attacks come as thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables,
revealed to the public by the WikiLeaks organization, shed light on Arab leaders' deep concerns over Tehran's nuclear program.
Some of the cables include statements by leaders in Saudi Arabia and Jordan,
urging the U.S. to attack Iran to end the isolated regime's uranium enrichment program.
Iran temporarily stopped enriching uranium earlier this month for unspecified reasons, the U.N. nuclear agency
said last week.
The finding was contained in a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency for the U.N. Security Council and the 35 IAEA board member nations. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the restricted report.
Diplomats first told the AP of a temporary shutdown of Iran's enrichment program on Monday. They also said they did not know why the thousands of centrifuges stopped turning out material that Iran says it needs to fuel a future network of nuclear reactors.
Speculation focused on the Stuxnet worm, which cyber experts have identified as configured to damage centrifuges.
But
Iran on Tuesday denied that Stuxnet had caused any damage.
Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi said details about the virus became known only after Iran's "enemies failed to achieve their goals."
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