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BBC: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran

By BBC.
A handout photo made available by Iran state TV (IRIB) on Nov. 27, 2020, shows the damaged car of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh after it was attacked near the capital Tehran.
Photo by AFP

Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country’s defence ministry has confirmed. Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand county. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has condemned the killing “as an act of state terror”.

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