
The event was held with the attendance of the First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, Head of Presidential Office Mahmoud Vaezi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi, Iran's Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari, Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Affairs Mohammad Shariatmadari, Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari-Jahromi and some officials.
Nourbaksh and a director in the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Affairs Abdolrahman Tajeddin succumbed to severe injuries received in a deadly car accident in Gorgan city suburbs in Golestan Province northeast of Iran on Thursday.
The car that Nourbakhsh and others were aboard collided with a heavy trailer and was badly damaged. The passengers received severe injuries as a result and underwent surgery after being transferred to a hospital.
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