TEHRAN: a satellite controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence“was used in last week’s murder of a top nuclear scientist in Iran, the Subcomandante of the Revolutionary Guard told local media on Sunday.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh He was driving down a highway on the outskirts of the capital of Iran. Tehran with a security detachment of 11 guards on Nov. 27, when the machine gun “zoomed in” on his face and fired 13 rounds, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said.
The machine gun was mounted on a Nissan pickup and “focused only on the face of the martyr Fakhrizadeh in a way that his wife, despite being only 25 centimeters (10 inches) away, was not shot,” the agency said. Mehr news quoting him.
It was being “monitored online” via satellite and an “advanced camera and artificial intelligence” was used to target, he added.
Fadavi said that Fakhrizadeh’s security chief received four bullets “while throwing himself” at the scientist and that “there were no terrorists at the scene.”
Iranian authorities have blamed arch enemy Israel and the opposition group in exile, the Iranian People’s Mujahideen (MEK) for the assassination.
State-run Press TV had previously said weapons “made in Israel” had been found at the site.
Several accounts of the scientist’s death have emerged since the attack, with the Ministry of Defence He initially said he was caught in a shootout with his bodyguards, while the Fars news agency claimed that “a remote-controlled automatic machine gun” killed him, without citing any source.
According to Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami, Fakhrizadeh was one of his deputies and headed the Ministry’s Defense and Research and Innovation Organization, focusing on the field of “nuclear defense.”
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