Tehran (IP) - Iran’s foreign minister has ‘strongly’ condemned the terrorist assassination of the Head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Iran Press/Iran News: Tweeting on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators.”

“Iran calls on int'l community—and especially EU—to end their shameful double standards & condemn this act of state terror,” he stressed.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense and prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, was assassinated and martyred on Friday afternoon local time in Damavand, Tehran Province, by unknown individuals during an armed conflict with his bodyguards.

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