By Reuters Staff
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(Reuters) - Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated in Tehran on Friday, is the latest Iranian nuclear scientist to be attacked since 2012.
FILE PHOTO: A view of a damage building after a fire broke out at Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility, in Isfahan, Iran, July 2, 2020. Atomic Energy Organization of Iran/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Fakhrizadeh died of injuries in hospital after assassins fired on his car, Iran’s armed forces said in a statement carried by state media. He had been described by Western, Israeli and Iranian exile opponents of Iran’s clerical rulers as a leader of a covert atomic bomb programme halted in 2003.