An Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme, was killed in an ambush near Tehran last week. The incident could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Meanwhile, Feng Chongyi, Associate Professor at University of Technology in Australia's Sydney, in an exclusive interview to India Today TV spoke about China, Xi Jinping and gave details of his detention by Chinese authorities in 2017. Feng Chongyi, an Australian permanent resident, was earlier detained by Chinese authorities during his visit to China for a human rights project.

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