An Iranian scientist named as the leader of Tehran’s military nuclear program died on Friday until it ended in the early 2000s, Iranian state media reported.
State TV on Friday quoted sources confirming the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as saying it would provide more information soon.
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The semi-official Fars News Agency reported that he was killed in an attack in Absard, east of Tehran. According to reports, witnesses heard an explosion and then machine gun fire. The attack targeted a car carrying Fakhrizadeh.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once called on Mohsen Fakhrizadeh at a news conference: “Remember that name.”
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Fakhrizadeh led Iran’s so-called “Amad” or “Hope” program, which Israel and the West described as a military operation to create a new one. The UN nuclear watchdog said the program ended in the early 2000s.
Fakhrizadeh’s death would be another major blow to the Tehran regime, which has struggled amid “maximum pressure” from the Trump administration and the U.S. Saw Iran abandon the 2015 nuclear deal and impose sanctions on Islamic dictatorships.
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Last year, the U.S. went on strike against Iranian General Qasem Solimani over what he called the Trump administration’s act of self-defense against “imminent” attacks.
ExxonMobil reported this week that Israeli defense forces are preparing for the possibility that US troops will attack Iran during the last two months of President Trump’s term.
A week after the New York Times reported, Trump asked senior advisers about his options for attacking Iran’s main nuclear site after giving details about a significant increase in Iran’s stockpile of nuclear material.
Paul Best and the Associated Press of Fox News contributed to this report
