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Iranian leader Ali Khamenei called for punishing the perpetrators of the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhri Zadeh and those behind them, and for completing the scientific and technical efforts he was working on, describing Zadeh as a “defensive nuclear scientist” .
Khamenei said on Saturday: “Interested officials must follow up on the murder crime, hold the perpetrators and those behind them accountable, and follow up on scientific efforts … Academician Fakhri Zadeh was killed by mercenaries , criminals, the miserable perpetrators. “
Khamenei added that Fakhrizadeh is one of the distinguished and distinguished scientists in the nuclear and defense fields, and that he is “a unique scientific element who has been martyred for the cause of God for his great scientific endeavors and endeavors.”
While Khamenei did not directly accuse Zadeh of being responsible, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused Israel of Zadeh’s assassination and promised to retaliate at the “appropriate time”.
Iranian state television quoted Rouhani as saying in a statement that “Fakhrizadeh’s assassination shows the desperation of the enemies and the intensity of their hatred,” adding that “this assassination will not slow down Iran’s nuclear path,” adding that the Iranian Defense Ministry “will fill the void left by the loss of this world.”
Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday, and Khamenei’s military adviser, Hossein Dehghan, promised to respond “like lightning to the heads of the killers.”
On Friday night, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Rawanji, sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council, asking them to condemn Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, highlighting that “there are serious indications about Israel’s responsibility for this assassination.”
Takht Rawanji held the United States and Israel responsible for the assassination, and called on Guterres and the Security Council to “take the necessary measures in this regard.”
While the United States and Israel are officially silent on Zadeh’s assassination, former CIA Director John Brennan described the nuclear scientist’s assassination as “a very reckless criminal act.”
In a series of tweets, he said: “It was a very reckless criminal act, with the risk of deadly retaliation and a round of regional conflict. It would be prudent for Iranian leaders to wait for a responsible American leadership to return to the international stage, and resist the desire to respond to the alleged perpetrators. “
“I don’t know if a foreign government allowed or carried out the assassination of Fakhrizadeh, but such a state-sponsored act would be a flagrant violation of international law and would encourage more governments to carry out such deadly attacks against foreign officials,” he added.
The New York Times quoted a US official and two intelligence sources as saying Israel was behind the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh, and said the assassination could complicate US President-elect Joe Biden’s efforts to revive the Iranian nuclear deal. .
In an event directly related to the Zadeh assassination and deterring the Iranian response, CNN quoted a Defense Ministry official as saying that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz had flown into the Gulf region with other warships.
The network reported that the aforementioned aircraft carrier is sent to the Gulf region, along with other warships, with the aim of “providing combat support and air cover” with the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and Afghanistan before 15 December. January.
The official said this was done on the orders of outgoing President Donald Trump, noting that the step was taken before the news of the assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. However, “CNN” said that the US troop movements are a message of increasing deterrence towards Iran, regardless of the official’s comment.
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