An Iranian military commander said Iran would strike back against killers who shot dead a suspected top nuclear scientist. Tehran claims researcher Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in the shooting near the capital on Friday.
Officials labelled it a 'terrorist' attack and are accusing Israel of a role in his death. “We will strike as thunder at the killers of this oppressed martyr and will make them regret their action,” Hossein Dehghan, military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote in a tweet.
Reports claim Western officials have long believed Fakhrizadeh was the head of Iran's secretive nuclear programme. The Ministry of Defence confirmed the death of the physics professor and leading figure in Iran's
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