* Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi's widow said his death would spark a thousand others to take up his work
* The nuclear scientist was killed an in ambush involving an explosion then machine gun fire near Tehran
* Sent tensions in the regions soaring as Iran accused Israel of trying to provoke war by assassinating him
* Adviser to supreme leader Ali Khamenei echoed claim that Israel was behind the attack and issued warning
* Said Iran will 'descend like lightning on the killers of this oppressed martyr' and they will 'regret their actions'
The widow of the Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated on Friday said today that 'he wanted to get martyred and his wish came true' as she appeared on state TV following his death.
The unnamed widow said the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi would spark a thousand others to take up his work, following the ambush in Tehran on Friday which the Iranian regime has blamed on Israel.
The scientist's body lay in a flag-draped, open coffin at a mosque today in central Tehran where Iran's chief justice Ebrahim Raisi prayed over his body in a public spectacle of mourning for the nuclear scientist.
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