A file picture shows Iran's nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian port town of Bushehr. TEHRAN: Iran said one of its most prominent nuclear scientists was assassinated on Friday in an attack on his car outside Tehran that it accused arch foe Israel of being behind.
A state television report on the assassination described him as one"of our country's nuclear scientists" and said that Israel"had an old and deep enmity towards him". Fakhrizadeh's assassination comes less than two months before Joe Biden is to take office as US president.Biden has promised a return to diplomacy with Iran after four hawkish years under incumbent US President Donald Trump, who withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and began reimposing crippling sanctions.Trump said at the time that the deal known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action did not offer sufficient guarantees to stop Tehran from acquiring an atomic bomb.
They killing of Fakhrizadeh is the latest in a series of assassinations of nuclear scientists in Iran in recent years that the Islamic republic has blamed Israel of carrying out.
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