Fereydoon Abbasi
| فریدون عباسی دوانی Fereydoon Abbasi Davani |
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| Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran | |
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In office 13 February 2011 – 16 August 2013 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Deputy | Mohammad Ahmadian |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Ahmadian (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ali Akbar Salehi |
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11 July 1958 Kazerun, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists |
| Alma mater | Shahid Beheshti University |
Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani (Persian: فریدون عباسی دوانی; born 11 July 1958) is an Iranian nuclear scientist who was head of Atomic Energy Organization from 2011 to 2013. He survived an assassination attempt in 2010, but was seriously wounded.
Abbasi was born in Kazerun, Iran, on 11 July 1958. According to Mashregh News, an Iranian news website, he holds a PhD in nuclear physics.
Abbasi was a professor of nuclear physics at Shahid Beheshti University and has reportedly been a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He reportedly did nuclear research at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Prior to his appointment as head of the AEOI he chaired the physics department at Tehran's Imam Hossein University.
Abbasi was appointed head of AEOI by then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 13 February 2011 to succeed Ali Akbar Salehi. The IAEA, the UN's nuclear watchdog, presented a report to its board in May 2011 that laid out new information on possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme. The director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, wrote to Abbasi-Davani to reiterate the agency's concerns about the existence of a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear programme and stressing the importance of Iran clarifying these issues.
The report stated:
"Based on the Agency's continued study of information which the Agency has acquired from many member states and through its own efforts, the Agency remains concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organisations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile... there are indications that certain of these activities may have continued beyond 2004."
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