Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian high-ranking nuclear physicist , long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday Nov. 27, 2020. Fakhrizadeh has long been described by Western countries as a leader of a covert atomic bomb programme halted in 2003, which Israel and the United States accuse Tehran of trying to restore in secret, but  always denied by Iran.