Retaliation For Killing Of Top Nuclear Scientist
A combo of recent file pictures shows Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) addressing the faithful at the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at Tehran University on June 19, 2009 and newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, attending a press conference in the Iranian capital on June 17, 2013. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images) Iran’s supreme leader said he plans to strike back for the killing of the top nuclear scientist in the Islamic Republic. On Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments that he will pick up Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s work. However, western and Israeli governments have been led to believe Fakhrizadeh headed a secret program to create weapons. This could spark tension with the U.S. as Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani quickly blamed U.S. ally, Israel, for the execution. “This brutal and cowardly terror attack showed that our enemies are experiencing weeks of anxiety,” Rouhani said. “Weeks when they feel their stress is being reduced and global conditions ar