Istanbul | A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist who was seen as a driving force behind Tehran's disbanded effort to build a nuclear weapon nearly two decades ago was killed on Friday outside Tehran in an apparent targeted ambush, Iranian officials said.
Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, described the attack on the scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, as the work of "state terror" and implicated Israel as having a possible role. Officials in Israel had no comment.
