A local witness told CNN he heard a loud bang on the Friday of the attack, and then about 10 minutes of gunfire exchanged – bomb and attack account.
The scientist’s son told state media that his father was disappointed with the security details of the two-hour walk outside Tehran, along the quiet, noble streets of Absard, that morning. “My father said he had a class, one he couldn’t teach virtually, and one important meeting, so they couldn’t persuade him to go back,” Hamid Fakhrizadeh told IRIB.
The outgoing Trump administration thinks the answer to all the questions is simple: no. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an endless proponent of the White House’s approvals and loud rhetoric’s “maximum pressure” strategy, said Friday: “We know our campaign is working, because the Iranian people want their return to the negotiating table. Signing. Approval relief. “
Iran is more ambiguous – its leaders are angry, but a split between the moderates and the Hawks over what to do next. In the first week of President-elect Joe Biden – Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution setting the clock on diplomacy that would push the U.S. Gave Iran two months to lift some sanctions or face a 20% purge of Iran early next year. Administration.
President Hassan Rouhani opposed parliament, appealing to Iran to allow those with 20 years of experience in diplomacy with the United States to re-establish negotiations. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Umani reacted immediately to the assassination by demanding the transfer and continued Fakhrizadeh’s work.
Saeed Mohammad Marandi, a professor at Tehran University, said that if Iran wanted a nuclear weapon, it would be technically advanced enough to build it. “Its traditional military capabilities, which are indigenous, show Iran’s strength,” he said, raising the second issue of making any future diplomacy a dog.
It is no secret that Iran is rapidly advancing its conventional arsenal, while the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has left its nuclear program inactive – until recently, when Trump began withdrawing from the Tehran Treaty after withdrawing from it.
Marandi said the only deal Iran would rejoin would be the old deal – which Iran had already negotiated once and did not need to be restarted. “The Iranians will not add anything to this [2015 deal] And they will not negotiate their defense capabilities, and they will not negotiate their alliance in the region, “he said, speaking on behalf of several rising, tough voices in Iran.
Yet diplomacy is always done by a blaster. The big issue immediately is whether any revenge for the deaths of Fakhrizadeh and Solimani kills the possibility of negotiations before they take to the field. Revenge for Suleimani’s death The military base was limited to the strike on al-Assad, in which no U.S. troops were killed. Iran’s fundamentalists feel that revenge is already pending.
“If the Israeli regime thinks it can do it with the help of the United States,” Marandi said, “the Iranian people will have to pay an unnecessary price if they continue to commit acts of terrorism. The only way to stop these acts of terrorism is for them.” Pay a price that does not come back to do more such acts. “
There are only 40 days left until Biden can start negotiations, and in the meantime opponents of diplomacy may close the talks.
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