The US has dismissed an accusation by Iran that it was behind the murder of an Iranian nuclear physics professor, who was killed in a bomb blast. Mark Toner, a US state department spokesman, on Tuesday called the allegation "absurd", hours after Massoud Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, was killed in the north of Tehran, the capital. Iranian media reported that a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside Mohammadi's home, killing him. Iran's foreign ministry had said that US and Israeli "mercenaries" were behind the attack. Earlier, the Iranian state-run Press TV reported: "The explosion took place near the professor's home in Qeytariyeh neighbourhood, in northern Tehran".
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