TEHRAN — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani Saturday accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a “mercenary” for the U.S. and seeking to create chaos, blaming it for the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist.
Rouhani vowed a response “in due time”, pledging his country will not fall into a “trap” and alluding to changing power dynamics in the wake of the US election, while Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the “punishing (of) the perpetrators and those responsible” for the killing.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was “martyred” after being seriously wounded when assailants targeted his car and engaged in a gunfight with his bodyguards outside the capital Tehran on Friday, acco…
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