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Tehran has threatened to retaliate for the assassination of Iran’s oldest nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakrizadeh. The country has claimed that Israel participated in the killings. This information has been revealed from the report of the British media BBC.
A statement from Iran’s Defense Ministry said on Friday that Mohsin Fakrizadeh, head of the ministry’s research and innovation agency, had been targeted by armed terrorists. The statement read: “Fakrizadeh, who was seriously injured in the confrontation between the terrorist and his bodyguards, was rushed to a hospital. Unfortunately, the medical team did everything possible to save him, but failed. And he left us a while ago. .
Hussein Dehagan, military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has vowed to retaliate with lightning. Foreign Minister Javed Zarif called it an international crime and called on the world community to condemn it.
“Terrorists have killed a prominent Iranian scientist today,” Zarif wrote on Twitter. He says Israel has a “great connection” to the incident.
Nuclear scientist Fakrizadeh was assassinated at a time when several Western nations express concern that Iran is increasing its arsenal of enriched uranium needed to make nuclear weapons. Yet Iran has repeatedly insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Between 2010 and 2012, four Iranian nuclear scientists died. Iran has accused regional rival Israel of being involved in the killings. In a May 2016 presentation on Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu specifically named Mohsen Fakrizadeh.
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