Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran - report
An Iranian military officer and head of Iran's nuclear weapons project is now taking a dirt nap. Israel? US?
Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Damavand, east of Tehran, local Iranian news reported on Friday.
Fakhrizadeh was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer and headed Iran’s nuclear weapons project. He was a professor of physics at the Imam Hussein University in Tehran and was former head of Iran's Physics Research Center (PHRC).
Iran's revolutionary guards commander wrote on Twitter that Iran will avenge the killing of scientists as it has in the past.
The Iranian Fars News Agency reported that Fakhrizadeh was only injured in an attack and that he was being treated in a hospital in Tehran.
The Iran Atomic Energy organization denied the reports, saying that no incident involving nuclear scientists took place, ISNA News Agency reported.