Tehran: Iran’s top nuclear scientist, was shot and killed on Friday. The US and Israeli intelligence have long charged were behind secret programs to design an atomic warhead and was traveling in a vehicle in northern Iran. The incident was reported by Iranian media. Iran blames its 'arch-enemy' Israel for being involved in the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday.

After the incident, the government pens down a letter to the United Nations asserting that it reserves the "right to defend" itself. The Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran stated 'arch-enemy' Israel was likely to have been involved in the killing of the prominent Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran. While claiming such a big statement they didn't offer any evidence to back up his claim. According to Reuters, Iran also wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN Security Council saying there are “serious indications of Israeli responsibility” in the assassination and Iran reserves the right to defend itself. The state media accounts claim that Fakhrizadeh had been gravely wounded in the attack and that doctors tried to save him in the hospital but could not.

Later, Iranian officials, who long maintained that their nuclear program strictly for peaceful purposes, not for weapons, called the attack an act of terror and promised to take revenge. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif took it to Twitter, "Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice with serious indications of Israeli role shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators.” The assassination threatens to increase tensions between Iran and the US and its close ally Israel, with some warning of the risk of a major conflict in the Middle East.

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