Top Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated

What Happened:

• According to Iranian State television, one of Iran's top nuclear scientists, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in an attack near Tehran.

• Witnesses are reported to have heard an explosion and machine gun fire.

• Fakhrizadeh led Iran’s “Amad” program, a program Israel and several Western powers said was actually a military operation to build a nuke. The U.N. said the program ended in the early 2000s.

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