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'They always accuse us': Netanyahu responds to killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

Israeli Prime Minister also doesn't deny reports that he met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during a ceremony to welcome Ethiopian Jewish immigrants making their aliyah (immigration to Israel), at Ben Gurion International Airport, east of Tel Aviv, on Dec. 03, 2020. — JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered only a “no comment” when asked Thursday about the allegations his country is behind last week's assassination of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist. 

“They always accuse us rightly or wrongly on anything that happens in Iran,” he said during a virtual event with the Hudson Institute. 

“Our longstanding policy is not to comment on such things, so I’m not going to do that now,” Netanyahu said. 

No country or group has claimed responsibility for killing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose car the semi-official Fars News Agency said was fired on Friday by a remote-controlled automatic machine gun.  

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