Tehran| WTNS | Nov 27:Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated near Tehran on Friday.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist involved in Iran’s nuclear industry, was assassinated by unknown attackers near Tehran on Friday, according to Wilayat Times News Service dispatches.

Raja News also said in a report that the top scientist has been assassinated in Absard county near Damavand, 60 km east of Tehran.

Fakhrizadeh was reportedly the only Iranian scientist that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had cited in a program. The Zionist regime’s media say several assassination attempts to kill him had failed in the past years.