Sons of Liberty RadioBREAKING: The alleged head of Iran’s military nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated Friday near Tehran after his motorcade came under attack with explosives and gunfire.
BREAKING: The alleged head of Iran's military nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated Friday near Tehran after his motorcade came under attack with explosives and gun fire. pic.twitter.com/uI01bc46Ig
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JPost reports:
Iran’s nuclear program chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated
Iran’s Zarif blames Israel for assassination of top nuclear scientist.
Head of Iran’s nuclear program Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 59, was assassinated in Damavand, east of Tehran, local Iranian news reported on Friday.
Iran later confirmed the reports. “The nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated today by terrorists,” the Iranian Defense Ministry wrote in a statement, while not blaming any specific entity for the incident.
Fakhrizadeh was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer and headed Iran’s nuclear weapons project. He was a professor of physics at the Imam Hussein University in Tehran and was former head of Iran’s Physics Research Center (PHRC).
Pictures from the scene show two vehicles, one blown up and one shot at from the front. Several local reports in Iran indicated that a suicide bomber was involved in the attack, but that has not yet been confirmed.
Iran’s revolutionary guards commander wrote on Twitter that Iran will avenge the killing of scientists as it has in the past.
“We will strike as thunder at the killers of this oppressed martyr and will make them regret their action,” Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted shortly after the incident.
The Iran Atomic Energy organization has yet to confirm the reports, saying that no incident involving nuclear scientists took place to the best of its knowledge, ISNA News Agency reported.
He had the rare distinction of being the only Iranian scientist named in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 2015 “final assessment” of open questions about Iran’s nuclear program and whether it was aimed at developing a nuclear bomb.
In 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “remember that name” after he announced that the Mossad had obtained 100,000 files from Iran’s secret nuclear archives.
The files retrieved by Mossad focused on the secret Iranian nuclear program that was developed from 1999 to 2003 called Project Amad, which was led by Fakhrizadeh. When Iran entered the 2015 nuclear deal, it denied that such a program existed.
In 2003, Iran was forced to shelve Project Amad, but not its nuclear ambitions. It split its program into an overt program and a covert one that continued the nuclear work under the title of scientific knowhow development, Netanyahu said at the time.
It continued this work in a series of organizations, which in 2018 were led by SPND, an organization inside Iran’s Defense Ministry led by the same person who led Project Amad – Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister’s Office has yet to comment on the reports.
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