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Iran's supreme leader promised retaliation on Saturday for the killing of the Islamic republic's top nuclear scientist, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Iran's top authority pledged to continue the work of Mohsen factories a day who Western and Israeli governments believe orchestrated a secret Iranian program to make weapons factories.
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Today's death has the potential to provoke a confrontation between Iran and its foes during the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency.
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Iran's president Hassan Rouhani was swift to blame US ally Israel for the assassination.
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He told a televised Cabinet meeting that the Islamic Republic would respond quote at the proper time.
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Israel's 12 news channel says Israeli embassies have now been put on high alert, but the country has declined to comment on the attack.
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Flackery today was killed on Friday when he was ambushed near Tehran, his car sprayed with bullets.
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He was rushed to hospital, where he later died.
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Protesters took to the streets of Tehran Saturday, burning US and Israeli flags and chanting No compromise, no surrender, just war with U.
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Tensions between the US and Iran have risen since Trump pulled Washington out of a 2015 international nuclear deal and ramped up harsh economic sanctions that drove down Iran's vital oil exports, crippling its economy.
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Tehran, meanwhile, sped up its nuclear work factories.
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Today's death could also complicate any future efforts by President elect Joe Biden.
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Thio ease hostilities with Tehran.
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The White House, Pentagon, US State Department and CIA have declined to comment on the killing, as has Biden's transition team.
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Last January, a U.
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S drone strike in Iraq killed Qasem Soleimani, Iran's most powerful military commander.
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Iran retaliated for that attack by firing missiles into U.
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S base in Iraq, the closest the two folks have come to war in decades.