New Delhi, March 18 -- Vidya Bhushan Soni, Former Indian Ambassador to Ukraine claimed that the killing of Iran's top security official, Ali Larijani "was a kind of overreaction."

Soni, in a conversation with ANI on Wednesday, said that the US and Israel have a very professional system due to which they achieved their targets.

"I think it's very unfortunate in this present-day world these kind of things are happening. First of all, it should not have happened because I think the situation was, didn't warrant such kind of an overreaction. It is my personal view, government of India may have a different view, Americans were not primarily responsible," he said on Wednesday.

"They were forced or maybe cajoled into taking the situation and ...