Gunmen assassinate Iran’s top nuclear scientist in ambush, provoking new crisis
Damage in the wake of the attack on prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday | IRIB NEWS AGENCY / VIA AFP-JIJI Iran’s top nuclear scientist, long identified by U.S. and Israeli intelligence as the guiding figure behind a covert effort to design an atomic warhead, was shot and killed Friday in what Iranian media…