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Iran’s intelligence and security services had known for a long time that someone had planned to assassinate Fahrizad, but still failed to prevent it.
The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Fahrizad may give the world an insight into the use of high technology, such as facial recognition in actual combat and spy combat in the future.
According to official Iranian investigations, Israel cooperated with an opposition organization in exile and used satellite remote control weapons, combined with facial recognition and artificial intelligence, to shoot and kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fahrizad.
At the funeral of the scientist accused of secretly helping to develop nuclear weapons, Major General Ali Shamhani, Iran’s security chief, said that when Fahrizad’s car was fired upon on the eastern outskirts of the capital Tehran, the attackers They used special technological equipment.
Israel has not publicly commented on allegations of its involvement.
This was a strange murder, not only because of the killer and the great political impact of this incident, but it also attracted observers of military and espionage technology from around the world, giving people a new understanding of the possible landscape. of future wars.
True and false
In late 2020, Fahrizad was assassinated and murdered on a road outside Tehran, the capital of Iran. This was an operation that completely exceeded the expectations of Iran’s official intelligence security department.
Fahrizad is the head of the nuclear program at the Iranian Defense Ministry. He is a national hero who resists the West in the heart of the Iranian people and has long attracted the attention of the intelligence agencies of the United States and Israel.
Before Fahrizad was assassinated, four top Iranian nuclear scientists had been assassinated in different ways since 2010. Therefore, Iran’s security work for Fahrizad is very strict.
Immediately after the assassination, the media cited news from the Iranian Defense Ministry and reported that there was a shootout between Fahrizad’s bodyguards and several armed men.
Initial news reports indicated that dozens of gunmen participated in the attack, some of whom were killed by Iranian agents. An Iranian report cited witnesses who claimed that three to four people were killed and said to be terrorists.
But then the reality exposed by the Iranian media was staggering: no attackers were found on the scene.
The mystery of the attack
After the incident, Iranian media claimed that the scientist was killed by a remote-controlled machine gun or satellite-controlled weapon. Major General Shamhani, president of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, confirmed that it was a “long-range attack” and that “special methods” were used.
According to news from Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, Fahrizad and his wife were riding in a bulletproof car and were escorted by three bodyguard vehicles with 11 officers on their way to a safe village outside Tehran. Attack scenes that only appeared in sci-fi or spy war movies in the past.
As he was about to reach the destination, the first bodyguard car left the convoy to head for the destination to fight the frontal battle. At that moment, Fahrizad’s vehicle was hit by an unknown object.
Fahrizad mistakenly thought the vehicle was malfunctioning, so he, his wife, and their bodyguards got out of the bulletproof car to verify the situation.
At that moment, a remote-controlled machine gun began firing at him from a car parked 150 meters away, precisely hitting Fahrizad and his bodyguard. Then the car exploded.
The official Iranian image shows the remains of the car and the scene stained with blood.
A senior general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard told Iranian media that there were no bombers at the scene and that the entire operation was completed by remote control.
He said Iranian intelligence and security services had long known that someone had planned to assassinate Fahrizad, and even predicted where the attack might take place, but he still did not expect the attackers to use this method.
He revealed that Fahrizad’s guards tried to block the bullet with their bodies, but three of them still hit him.
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Iran’s official photos of the attack site have illustrated many problems and raised many questions for Iran’s intelligence services.
Satellite guidance, facial recognition and artificial intelligence
Iranian media revealed that artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology were used in the murder. The machine gun is installed in a Nissan pickup, which is controlled remotely online via satellite, and uses advanced cameras and artificial intelligence to aim at the target.
This machine gun only fired 13 rounds.
Fahrizad’s face was locked, so he precisely pressed the key. Although the wife on the side was only 10 inches away from him, they did not shoot her.
Iranian officials accused the Iranian opposition group in exile and Israel of jointly carrying out the assassination.
In an interview with a radio station, Israeli Intelligence Minister Elie Cohen said he did not know who was behind the murder.
However, the “New York Times” quoted an anonymous senior Israeli official involved in monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities as saying that Fahrizad has been involved in Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, posing a major threat to the world. , for which the world should thank Israel.
Expert analysis of high-tech warfare
Looking back at the beginning of 2020, Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Brigade, who may assume Iran’s highest leadership position in the future, was killed by an American drone.
Soleimani’s death is still worth a debt, because US President Trump publicly admitted that the US military carried out this attack, and Iran also carried out related retaliatory actions.
But so far, no country, organization or individual has claimed responsibility for Fahrizad’s murder.
According to “Forbes” magazine, remotely controlled machine guns and other remotely controlled ground weapons have been widely used on the battlefield of the Middle East.
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Facial recognition technology has already been used for military, espionage and security purposes in many countries.
They are used by professional armies, as in combat vehicles. Several armed organizations have also begun to use these weapons in large numbers, installing them in vehicles or fixed combat locations.
BBC security reporter Gardner analyzed that Fahrizad’s death was a serious flaw by Iran’s security agencies and spy agencies, and they now face a series of difficult problems.
The BBC science and technology reporter Kleinman analyzed that the aforementioned use of sophisticated and sophisticated high-tech weapons to attack is shocking.
He said it is necessary to emphasize that some of the above details have not been confirmed by third parties.
The reporter also noted that the use of artificial intelligence technology in armed conflicts has been a concept that has been of concern to many scientists for some time.
In 2015, the late British scholar, Professor Stephen Hawking, and 1,000 other scientists signed an open letter calling for a ban on the development of artificial intelligence for military use.
But this time Iran’s statement was also questioned by some sectors. Tom Withington, an analyst specializing in electronic warfare issues, said the authenticity of these reports needs to be doubted.
Noted British computer expert Professor Noel Shakey, a member of the organization that publicly called for opposition to the creation of killer robots, said that once the military obtains such weapons, the consequences are unimaginable.
He noted that if this device is automatic and will use facial recognition to accurately locate and kill people, then humans will embark on a “snowball-like downhill path” that will completely subvert global security.
