Iranian state television has denied that a man killed in his Tehran home on Saturday was a nuclear scientist.
Dariush Rezainejad was shot dead by two men on motorbikes as he entered his garage with his wife and child.
Iranian newspapers first reported that Rezainejad, 35, was working in the country's nuclear programme, which would have made him the fourth nuclear scientist to die or go missing in suspicious circumstances.
On Sunday, state television said he was a masters student in electronics at Khajeh University in Tehran and had worked for the defence ministry, though it was unclear in what capacity.
Ali Larijani, the speaker of parliament, denounced the killing in an address to legislators as the work of Zionists and the United States and said it showed Washington's hostility to Iran.
Larijani has previously served as a negotiator with the West on the country's nuclear programme.
Rezainejad's wife was also wounded and had been taken to a nearby hospital.
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