Iranian President accuses Israel of assassinating nuclear scientist to provoke war
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior Iranian physicist and rocket scientist, was killed in a brazen daylight ambush attack on his convoy on 27 November while traveling along a rural road about 175 km east of Tehran. Iran almost immediately blamed Israel for the assassination. Tel Aviv has not made any formal statements on the matter.
Israel’s assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was aimed at destablizing the region and provoking war in the final days of the “ill-fated Trump presidency,” President Hassan Rouhani said Monday at a press conference in Tehran.