Dariush Rezaeinejad

Dariush Rezaeinejad (February 18, 1977 – July 23, 2011) was an Iranian electrical engineering PhD student from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, who was killed in front of his home. Iran's Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said he was "not active in nuclear projects and has nothing to do with the nuclear issue." However, the Associated Press news agency, in a report quoting a foreign official and a former UN nuclear inspector, wrote that Rezaeinejad's research was about high-voltage switches, which are considered an important part in the construction of nuclear warheads in atomic weapons. In the articles presented by Rezaeinejad to the 14th, 15th and 16th Iranian Electrical Engineering Conferences, he was introduced as a researcher from Malek-Ashtar University of Technology and the title of his two articles is "Design and Construction of an Electronic Resistor as a Load with Small Inductance for a High Voltage Pulse Generator" and "Design, Manufacture and Testing of a Closing Explosive Switch". Der Spiegel, citing an Israeli intelligence official, announced the assassination of Rezaeinejad as the first serious action of the new head of the Mossad, Tamir Pardo.