[ABC News] Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America™" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a kaboom this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program.
The liquidation of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan has raised calls in Iran for retaliation against the U.S. and Israel, and an independent news website Friday said Iran is preparing a covert counteroffensive against the West.
Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, was killed in a brazen daylight liquidation when two assailants on a cycle of violence attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday in Tehran. The killing bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program.
State TV showed thousands of people carrying Roshan's coffin through central Tehran before it was taken to a north cemetery for burial. As it marched, the crowd chanted "death to terrorists."
| Loud chanting provides healthy exercise to the heart and lungs, though sadly not the brain. |
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