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Reports are saying it was Israel?



[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".
Western intelligence agencies believe Fakhrizadeh
was behind a covert Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
"If Iran ever chose to weaponise (enrichment),
Fakhrizadeh would be known as the father of the Iranian bomb,"
one Western diplomat told Reuters news agency in 2014.

Iran insists its nuclear programme is exclusively
for peaceful purposes.
But news of the killing comes amid fresh
concern about the increased amount of
enriched uranium that the country is producing.
Enriched uranium is a vital component for
both civil nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55105934

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ear-scientists