IRAN has ordered the United States to pay more than $4 billion (£3.2bn) in compensation to the families of nuclear scientists killed in targeted attacks on recent years. 

A court in Tehran made the ruling on Thursday after a case was brought by the families of three of the scientists and another that was injured in an attack. 

Iran has in the past blamed Israel for such killings, including that of the country’s top nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi in November 2020.