Iran has appointed nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived a bomb attack in November, as the country’s new atomic chief

Iran has appointed nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived a bomb attack in November, as the country's new atomic chief, state television reported on its website on Sunday.
  
Abbasi Davani, replaces Ali Abkar Salehi who was endorsed as foreign minister last month. The announcement of his appointment was declared in an order issued by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the television website said.
  
"You are hereby appointed as a vice president and head of Atomic Energy Organisation considering the level of your commitment, piety and fruitful scientific and executive records," Ahmadinejad said in the appointment order carried by the website.
  
Abbasi Davani, a senior figure in Iran's nuclear program, was wounded in a bomb attack on November 29 in Tehran which the Islamic republic blamed on the CIA and Mossad. He survived the attack, but another senior nuclear scientist, Majid Shahriari, was killed in a similar assault on the same day in a separate part of the capital.

Iranian media reports said Abbasi Davani, 52, is the head of the physics department at Tehran's Imam Hossein University. Abbasi Davani was targeted by UN Security Council sanctions under Resolution 1747 adopted in March 2007. He was identified as a senior defense ministry and armed forces logistics scientist.