Iranian President says Israel killed nuclear scientist

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused Israel of killing a high-ranking nuclear scientist, Iran's atomic program founders, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and Reuters reports.

At the same time, the adviser to the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Iran would avenge the murder of a nuclear scientist.

The head of the organization for research and innovation under the Iranian Defense Ministry, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed on November 27 due to an assassination attempt near Tehran