Iran warns ‘no terror will go unanswered’ as they bury top nuclear scientist.

IRAN began the burial of assassinated nuke scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in a cemetery in northern Tehran on Monday as the rogue state vowed to avenge the killing.

Dr Fakhrizadeh — the founding father of Iran's secret nuclear weapons program — was ambushed on a highway near Tehran on Friday and gunned down.

Dr Fakhrizadeh was killed using a remote-controlled machine gun left inside a car which then blew up, sources within the country have claimed.

Fakhrizadeh was shot at least three times by the gun, positioned in a Nissan pickup that was parked alongside the road he was travelling on, before it blew up, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.

Iran’s clerical and military rulers have blamed the Islamic Republic’s longtime enemy, Israel, for the killing.

A hard-line Iranian newspaper run by one of the Ayatollah's advisers, called for the Israeli port city of Haifa to be attacked in retaliation — in such a way as to guarantee "heavy human casualties".

It is thought a Mossad death squad was behind the sophisticated attack and follows the assassination of several Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010.

State TV showed Fakhrizadeh’s coffin, wrapped by an Iranian flag in a ceremony at the defence ministry, where only several dozen senior military commanders and his family attended due to coronavirus precautions.

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