The women Iranian nuclear scientists left behind 

The World

In the past decade, at least five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed. Some have been assassinated right in front of their wives and children. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the widows and mothers who have been speaking on Iranian television.

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