Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack

[The Deadlifting Dog]

Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack, State Media Say
The scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was seen as the force behind Iran’s nuclear weapons program. News reports in Iran say he died in a hospital after being attacked in a vehicle.

By Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman
Nov. 27, 2020
Updated 10:24 a.m. ET

Iran’s top nuclear scientist was shot and killed on Friday as he was traveling in a vehicle in northern Iran, Iranian state media reported.

The scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was considered the driving force behind Iran’s nuclear weapons program before it was quietly disbanded in the early 2000s, according to American intelligence assessments.

Iran’s state television said Mr. Fakhrizadeh had been gravely wounded in the attack and that doctors tried to save him in the hospital but could not.

Farnaz Fassihi is a freelance reporter with the International Desk based in New York. Before contracting with the Times, she was a senior writer and war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years based in the Middle East. @farnazfassihi

Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,” published by Random House.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/w...ts-killed.html

I am guessing the Israelis...

Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation is already denying it.
Meanwhile Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Commander stated Iran will avenge the killing.

[kelkel]

No doubt Israel. Remember as well there have been about a dozen unexplained explosions over there. There is internal and external resistance.

[SampsonandDelilah]

Netanyahu said to remember the name “ Fakhrizadeh”.

Looks like he followed up on that warning. I have no doubts the Trump administration agreed to look the other way as they end their administration. Frankly I’m a little surprised we haven’t heard of more activities like this...

[Mr. Small]

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