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Iran’s oldest nuclear scientist, Mohsin Fakrizadeh, has been assassinated. The country’s Defense Ministry said he died in hospital after being attacked in a car near the capital Tehran. In condemning the killings, Iran’s foreign minister called them “acts of state terrorism.” This information has been known from the report of the British media BBC.
Mohsin Fakrizadeh is the mastermind behind Iran’s secret nuclear program, according to Western intelligence agencies. In 2014, a Western diplomat said: “If Iran ever wants to have a (nuclear) weapon, Fakrizadeh will be the father of the Iranian bomb.”
The nuclear scientist Fakrizadeh was assassinated at a time when several Western nations expressed concern that Iran is increasing its arsenal of enriched uranium needed to make nuclear weapons. However, enriched uranium is required both for the production of civilian fuel and for the development of military weapons. Iran has repeatedly insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
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.
A statement from Iran’s Defense Ministry said on Friday that the attacker struck shortly after noon in front of a car carrying Mohsen Fakrizadeh, director of a research and innovation agency under the ministry. The statement read: “After the confrontation between the terrorist and his bodyguards, Fakrizadeh, seriously injured, was rushed to hospital. Unfortunately, the medical team did everything possible to save him, but failed. And he left us a while ago.
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said he had already avenged the killings.
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