Iran Foreign Ministry on Friday confirmed that a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, had been assassinated. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured by terrorists in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a martyrs death, the ministry said. Local authorities had confirmed Fakhrizadehs death several hours earlier and also said that several attackers were killed. Fakhrizade, 63, had been a member of Irans Revolutionary Guard and was an expert in missile production. Fars news agency alleged that this…
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