When physicist Ahmad Shirzad, 49, talks about his former colleague Masoud Ali Mohammadi, he has "nothing but good things" to report. Shirzad, a professor in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, is deeply moved when he describes the "24 years of friendship" between the two men, who studied physics together, including a semester in Italy.
Shirzad's friend Mohammadi died last Tuesday. He was on his way to give a lecture at Tehran's Sharif University when a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded near his car.
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