Suspected mastermind of Iran’s secret atomic weapons program ambushed and killed

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is thought to have headed what the U.N. nuclear watchdog and U.S. intelligence services believe was a coordinated nuclear weapons program in Iran, shelved in 2003. He was the only Iranian scientist named in the International Atomic Energy Agency's 2015 "final assessment" of open questions about Iran's nuclear program. The IAEA's report said he oversaw activities "in support of a possible military dimension to (Iran's) nuclear program."

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