Top nuclear scientist assassinated in Iran
Head of Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was targeted by a number of assailants in a terror attack near the capital Tehran on Friday.
Latest reports suggest that the prominent Iranian physicist had been targeted on Friday in a multi-pronged attack involving at least one explosion and small fire by a number of terrorist in Absard city of Damavand County, near Tehran Province.
The attack targeted the vehicle carrying Fakhrizadeh - who headed the Iranian Defense Ministry's Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), the agency said.
The Defense Ministry's media office said Fakhrizadeh "was severely wounded in the course of clashes between his security team and terrorists, and was transferred to hospital," where he succumbed to his injuries.