Iran's Zarif says Israel likely to be involved in killing of Iranian scientist

FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo/File Photo

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said Iran's arch-enemy Israel was likely to have been involved in the killing of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday, although he offered no evidence.

"This cowardice - with serious indications of Israeli role -shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators," Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted. "Iran calls on int'l community - and especially EU - to end their shameful double standards & condemn this act of state terror."