Iran newspaper urges strike on Haifa if Israel killed scientist

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in a targeted attack on Friday (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

An opinion piece published by a hard-line Iranian newspaper has suggested Iran should attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of a scientist linked to its disbanded military nuclear programme.

Though the hard-line Kayhan newspaper has long argued for aggressive retaliation for operations targeting Iran, Sunday’s opinion piece went further, suggesting any assault be carried out in a way that destroys facilities and “also causes heavy human casualties”.