DUBAI: Iran’s president on Saturday accused Israel of killing a prominent Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of planning a secret nuclear bomb program, state television reported. Iran’s clerical and military rulers have threatened revenge for Friday’s assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who according to Iranian media died in hospital …
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The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a leading Iranian nuclear scientist and brigadier general of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), outside Tehran, on Friday triggered a new crisis in West Asia. It is the highest-profile assassination of an Iranian regime figure since the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, who …
Read More »Explained: Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist?
By: Desk Explained | November 28, 2020 3:34:04 pm Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist who Israel allegedly led the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program until its dissolution in the early 2000s, was killed in a targeted attack in which gunmen used explosives and machine gun fire on Friday. (Office of …
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Mohsen Fakhrizadehh ad was traveling in a car near the city of Absard in Tehran Tehran: Iran said one of its most prominent nuclear scientists was killed on Friday in an attack on his car outside Tehran that accused his arch-enemy Israel of being behind. Scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was “seriously …
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