Since 2007, according to a 2011 article in The Telegraph (UK) by Chief Foreign Correspondent David Blair, five Iranian nuclear scientists and the head of the country’s ballistic missile programme have died in mysterious circumstances, while another scientist was wounded, and another has disappeared. Apart from them, the country’s Deputy Defence Minister had disappeared.

Owing to these incidents, Iran had decided to bump up security for its nuclear scientists and made a very public announcement of the same. While Iran blamed Israel for these attacks, deciding whether foreign agents should be held accountable for the unnatural deaths of India’s nuclear scientists is a matter of pure speculation. The former Prime Minister of the UK, in November 2009, according the UK’s Mail , had been urged to intervene in an investigation into the death of British nuclear scientist Timothy Hampton.

Hampton fell to his death from the 17th floor of a UN building in Vienna in October.

While local police and UN officials had suggested that Hampton, who was involved in monitoring illegal nuclear tests by Iran and North Korea, killed himself, forensic tests commissioned by his family had raised doubts about these findings. The family suggested instead that he may have been murdered.

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