On January 11, 2011, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed from a car explosion in Iran.
Roshan was 32 and a graduated from the Sharif University. He worked and lived in Isfahan province.

Roshan, a man of high importance at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant is one of four nuclear scientists that have suffered from assassination attempts in the past two years. Only one of the four scientists have survived from these vicious attacks, and Roshan was not that lucky one. Similar to previous attacks, the bomb in Roshan’s assassination was magnetic. According to BBC, Tehran governor Safarli Baratloo says the bomb was “the work of the Zionists.”

With the patterns seen between the various assassination attempts, officials are wondering who did this? why did they do it? and how can they stop it?

CNN reports that Iranian officials were quick to point the finger at Israel and the United States for the blame of this crisis.

Many believe that a country such as Israel or the US are motivated to kill these scientists because they fear the power that they hold if they are successful in their nuclear creations.
USA Today reports that just days before the most recent assassination took place, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran started enriching uranium to higher concentrations than before.

Despite suspicions from the United States and Israel, Iran has denied attempts to make nuclear weapons. They have explained the uranium enrichment program as a means of peacefulness geared toward generating electricity.

Allies of the United States have stood with the US in attempting to persuade Iran to end their intensive uranium enrichment, a process that produces atomic weapons and nuclear fuel.
Officials in Iran explain the assassination as “part of the efforts to disrupt Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, under the false assumption that diplomacy alone would not be enough for that purpose.”

However, the US has denied any ties to the assassination that took place in early January. According to USA Today, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton “denied any US role in the slaying and the Obama administration condemned the attacks.”

Contrastingly, officials in Israel have show suspicions of covert campaigns against Iran. However, Israel has not fully admitted to being involved.

So what does this mean for the future? Will this assassination be the one to put an end to Iran’s uranium enrichment program? According to Vice President Mohamma Reza Rahimi, the answer to this question is no. BCC reports that Rahimi says that the attack “would not stop ‘progress’ in the country’s nuclear programme.”

So what does this mean for the future? Will Iran halt its uranium enrichment, or will the chaos continue? Only time will tell. As it stands today, it seems as though neither Israel nor the US have admitted to being the criminals. With that said, nothing is stopping Iran from continuing the program.