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“Death from above”, and in a cinematic way, appears to have been found by Iran’s top nuclear scientist last month. The assassination of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fahrizadeh was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a “satellite-controlled intelligent system,” a senior Iranian military commander said, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
Iran has blamed Israel for the assassination of Fakhrizadeh, who was viewed by Western intelligence as the mastermind of Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program. Tehran insists it is seeking to develop such weapons.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the killings, but has admitted in the past that it conducted covert intelligence operations against Iran’s nuclear program.
The Islamic Republic has released conflicting details about Fakhrizadeh’s death on November 27 in an ambush of his car near Tehran.
“There were no terrorists present in the field … Witness Fakhrizadeh was driving when a gun, using an advanced camera, was pointed at him,” Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said during a ceremony Sunday. , according to the semi-official Tasnim agency. “The machine gun was mounted on a van and was controlled by satellite,” he added.
Fadavi made the remarks after Iranian authorities said they had found “evidence of the killers,” although they have yet to announce any arrests. Shortly after Fahrizadeh’s murder, eyewitnesses told state television that a truck had exploded and then a group of armed men opened fire on his car.
Last week, Ali Samhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the assassination was carried out with “electronic devices” and without people on the ground.
Experts and officials told Reuters last week that Fahrizadeh’s killing had exposed security loopholes, suggesting that there may have been an incursion into Iranian security forces and that the Islamic Republic was vulnerable to further attacks.
“Thirteen shots were fired at witness Fakhrizadeh with a satellite-controlled machine gun … Artificial intelligence and facial recognition techniques were used during the operation,” Fantavi said. “His wife, who was sitting 25 cm from him in the same car, was not injured.”
Fakhrizadeh, whom Israel has said was one of the protagonists of Iran’s ongoing nuclear weapons campaign, was the fifth Iranian nuclear scientist to be killed in a targeted attack since 2010 on Iran, and the second highest-ranking Iranian. murdered in 2020.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, Kassem Suleimani, was killed in January in a US drone strike in Iraq. Tehran has responded by firing rockets at US military targets in Iraq.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
