DUBAI – Iran’s supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for thekilling of the Islamic Republic’s top nuclear scientist, raising the threatof a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks ofDonald Trump’s presidency.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged to continue the work of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh,who Western and Israeli governments believe was the architect of a secretIranian programme to make weapons.
Friday’s killing, which Iran’s president was swift to blame on Israel,could complicate any efforts by President-elect Joe Biden to revive adetente with Tehran that was forged when he was in Barack Obama’sadministration.
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Trump pulled Washington out of the 2015 international nuclear pact agreedbetween Tehran and major powers.
