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		</div><p>Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani claimed that Israel was behind the killing of a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear programme in the 2000s in an effort to start a war in the last days of President Donald Trump’s administration.</p>
<p>Mr Rouhani’s comments in a news conference marked the first time he has directly accused the Jewish state of carrying out the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh late last month.</p>
<p>Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the last decade, has repeatedly declined to comment on the attack.</p>
<p>“Waging instability and war in the final days of the Trump administration was the main aim of the Zionist regime in the assassination,” Mr Rouhani said.</p>
<p>Mr Rouhani vowed to avenge the killing but said his country will not allow Israel to decide the “time or venue” of any retaliatory action.</p>
<p>He said Iran will not allow instability in the region.</p>
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<p>Mr Fakhrizadeh headed Iran’s so-called Amad programme, which Israel and the West have alleged was a military operation looking at the feasibility of building a nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency says that “structured programme” ended in 2003.</p>
<p>US intelligence agencies concurred with that assessment in a 2007 report.</p>
<p>After the killing of Mr Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian security official, Ali Shamkhani, accused Israel of using “electronic devices” to remotely kill the scientist.</p>
<p>Israel insists Iran still maintains the ambition of developing nuclear weapons, pointing to Tehran’s ballistic missile program and research into other technologies.</p>
<p>Iran long has maintained that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.</p>
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