Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says that Iran will not take heed of countries that are urging restraint in the wake of the killing of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
“They can say whatever they want…. Iran will deliver a proportionate, independent response that will [inflict] maximum pain on those who ordered and perpetrated [the crime],” he says, according to semi-official PressTV.
Asked about various theories being forwarded about the ambush on nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh, Khatibzadeh dismisses them as coming from Iran’s rivals, including the People’s Muhajideen dissident group, also known as MEK, currently based in Albania.
“Many Hollywood-style scenarios have been raised. The information campaign that has begun from Albania, Israel and Washington should not confuse us,” he says, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, which is closely linked to the IRGC.
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