The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan has traded Twitter barbs with Texas Senator Ted Cruz over the killing of a top scientist believed to be behind Iran's nuclear program.
Brennan, who was director of the CIA between 2013 and 2017, condemned the shooting ambush of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as a "criminal act" and "highly reckless".
Fakhrizadeh, an officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, was named as the director of Iran's nuclear weapons project in 2018. Tehran, which has always insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, reacted with anger to the death and suggested Israeli involvement. Neither Israel nor the U. S. has commented on the incident thus far.
In a tweet on Friday, Brennan said that the killing "risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict."
"Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage & to resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits," Brennan tweeted on Friday, suggesting that Tehran wait for President-elect Joe Biden to take office.
In a follow-up tweet, Brennan said that such an act of "state-sponsored terrorism" violates international law and would encourage other governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.
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