Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi on Sunday in a phone call to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned the assassination of a top Iranian scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, noting that terrorism is an unacceptable and heinous act in any form.<\/p>\n
Al-Busaidi extended his condolences to the Iranian government and people over the assassination of the Iranian prominent nuclear scientist on Friday by suspected Israeli-tied elements, IRNA reported.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, foreign ministers of Qatar, Syria, and the chief of Hamas Political Bureau also offered their condolences over Fakhrizadeh assassination in separate phone talks with Zarif.<\/p>\n
Fakhrizadeh, 59, was assassinated after being seriously wounded when assailants targeted his car and engaged in a gunfight with his bodyguards in Absard, a town just east of the capital Tehran.<\/p>\n
The scientist, who headed the Defense Ministry\u2019s Research and Innovation Organization, succumbed to injuries after medics failed to revive him.<\/p>\n
The body of the assassinated scientist was taken to several revered Shia Muslim shrines ahead of his burial set for Monday.<\/p>\n
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday urged the international community to condemn an act of \u201cstate terror\u201d that led to the assassination of a senior Iranian nuclear scientist.<\/p>\n
Zarif tweeted in German that the international community, particularly the European Union, must \u201cabandon its shameful double standards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Saturday urged definitive punishment of those behind the Fakhriadeh assassination.<\/p>\n
“Follow up on this crime and certainly punishing the perpetrators and those ordered it, and … continue the scientific and technical efforts of this martyr in all of the fields he was working in,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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