The leader of anti-terror Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq group says Iraqi resistance groups reserve the right to respond to Israeli acts of aggression against the Arab country.

Iran's defense ministry said the top scientist was seriously wounded after attackers targeted his car and exchanged fire with his bodyguards in Absard, to the east of capital Tehran. Fakhrizadeh later died from his injuries in hospital.

The US has fabricated an “assassination plot” in the pipeline involving Iran, while Trump actually boasts of backing the proposed assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017.