The Iranian authorities point to Israel. A senior nuclear program official in Iran died of his injuries after the attack on his vehicle near Tehran.
According to the Iranian Ministry of Defense, it is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was head of the Research and Innovation Department Department.
Quoted by the AFP agency, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, condemned this assassination denouncing a “terrorist act” and evoking “serious indications of the role of Israel”. “Terrorists have today murdered an eminent Iranian scientist. This cowardice-with serious indications of the role of Israel-shows the desperate bellicism of its authors, “he said.
The head of diplomacy also called on the international community to “end its shameful ambivalent positions and to condemn this terrorist act”.
