https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/iranian-nuclear-scientist-assassinated-near-tehran-report-650457
Head of Iran's nuclear program Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Damavand, east of Tehran, local Iranian news reported on Friday. Iran later confirmed the reports.
Fakhrizadeh was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer and headed Iran’s nuclear weapons project. He was a professor of physics at the Imam Hussein University in Tehran and was former head of Iran's Physics Research Center (PHRC).