WATCH | IRAN BEGINS FUNERAL FOR SLAIN MILITARY NUCLEAR SCIENTIST MOHSEN FAKHRIZADEH

Mon 30 November 2020:

Iran has begun a funeral for a recently killed scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the early 2000s.

State TV broadcast the ceremony Monday showing the casket of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Funeral ceremony of Iranian nuclear scientist #Fakhrizadeh is being held in Tehran.#Iranian pic.twitter.com/qugGztNJ7K

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) November 30, 2020

🔴 LIVE: #Iran holds state funeral procession for top nuclear scientist #Fakhrizadeh assassinated outside #Tehran. https://t.co/yrXWxsIjwn

— Press TV (@PressTV) November 30, 2020

An honor guard carried it to a podium where reciters read the Quran and other religious verses in an outdoor area of the Defense Ministry in Iran’s capital, Tehran.

Iran held a ceremony to mourn prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh days after his killing, which Tehran blames on Israel https://t.co/sC8oee0dWj pic.twitter.com/8Y2KEjyssF

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 29, 2020

Fakhrizadeh was killed in a military-style ambush Friday on the outskirts of Tehran, which reportedly saw a truck bomb explode and gunmen open fire on the scientist.

Iran has blamed Israel for the attack. Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the last decade, has declined to comment on the killing.