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Iranian peace campaigners warn scientist's assassination could spark Middle East war
People pray over the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist who was killed on Friday, during a funeral ceremony at the Imam Reza holy shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad

IRANIAN peace campaigners have condemned the assassination of scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi and warned it could spark a bloody conflict in the Middle East.

Mr Fakhrizadeh was murdered in a gun and bomb attack on the outskirts of Tehran on Friday. His bodyguard was also killed. 

The Iranian government has denounced an act of “state terror” by Israel, which has not commented on the killing but has a record of assassinations of Iranian scientists.

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