Assailants on a motorcycle assassinated an Iranian nuclear physicist on Saturday, Iranian media reports said, in a killing that bore similarities to other slayings of scientists involved in the country’s nuclear work in recent years.

A French academic arrested in Iran following 2009 disputed presidential elections will be allowed to leave the country after paying a $300,000 fine, her lawyer said on Saturday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday dismissed the threat of new international sanctions, saying any UN resolution punishing Iran for its refusal to stop uranium enrichment “won’t be worth a cen