Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran
Iran's most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country's defence ministry has confirmed.
Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand county.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has condemned the killing "as an act of state terror".
Western intelligence agencies believe Fakhrizadeh was behind a covert Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
"If Iran ever chose to weaponise (enrichment), Fakhrizadeh would be known as the father of the Iranian bomb," one Western diplomat told Reuters news agency in 2014.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran - BBC News
Well I guess there are no prizes for working out who the chief suspects are in this one!
Bit surprised that a hit team was used though because on the ground operatives have to have an exit strategy and 1st indications are that some of them were shot in the act.
It will be interesting to see how this one unravels....