WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Suspected Iranian nuclear mastermind assassinated

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An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb program was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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