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The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday near the capital Tehran was reminiscent of the series of killings of a group of Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years, as Zadeh was preceded by the assassinations of several of them inside Iran.
Although Iran has not presented concrete evidence of the involvement of Israel or the United States in the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists, the “guilty finger” is ready to be directed against these two countries and their intelligence elements by the Iranian authorities.
The West accuses Iran of having a secret nuclear program that may lead to the development of an atomic weapon, which Iran denies and insists that its nuclear program is civil and peaceful, with the aim of generating energy.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Atomic scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed near the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday after attackers opened fire on his car, Iranian forces said in a statement published by state media.
Fakhrizadeh, who had long been suspected by the West, Israel and Iranians in exile as the mastermind of a covert nuclear bomb program that was halted in 2003, died in hospital of serious injuries in the ambush.
Iran pointed an accusing finger at Israel, implying that outgoing US President Donald Trump has blessed the assassination.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter that there are “dangerous signs of an Israeli role” and called on Western countries to “end their shameful double standards and condemn this act, which is state terrorism.” according to Reuters.
Masoud Ali Mohammadi
On January 12, 2010, Iranian nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by the remote detonation of a bomb in Tehran.
While Iranian officials described the physics professor as a nuclear scientist, a spokesman said he did not work for the Atomic Energy Organization and was a professor at the University of Tehran.
However, Western sources said that Ali Mohammadi was working closely with Fakhrizadeh and Fereidoon Abbasi-Dawani, who were subject to UN sanctions for their work in activities suspected of developing nuclear weapons.
Majid Shahriari
Nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari was killed in a car bomb explosion in Tehran on November 29, 2010, and his wife, who was accompanying him, was injured in the attack.
Iranian officials described the bombing, which targeted Shahryari, who was a professor at Shahid Beheshti University, as an Israeli or US-sponsored attack on the country’s nuclear program.
Iranian news agency “IRNA” quoted the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency Ali Akbar Salehi as saying at the time that Shahryari had a role in one of the country’s largest nuclear projects without revealing more about it.
Dariush rezaei
Iranian physics professor Dariush Rezaei was shot dead in an assassination operation carried out by armed robbers in the east of the Iranian capital on July 23, 2011.
Rezaei, who turned 35 when he was assassinated, worked as a professor at the university and had a doctorate in physics.
The Iranian deputy interior minister said at the time that he was not related to the Iranian nuclear program, after initial reports in some media indicated such a link.
Mustafa Ahmadi Roshen
Chemical engineer Ahmadi Roshan, 32, was killed when a motorcyclist exploded a sticky bomb in his car in Tehran in January 2012.
Another passenger died of his injuries at the hospital and a passerby was injured.
Iran said the dead man was a nuclear scientist overseeing a section of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility.
Iran blamed Israel and the United States for the attack.
Fereydoun Abbasi Dwani
The head of Imam University’s physics department Hussein Abbasi-Dawani and his wife were injured in a car bomb explosion on the same day that Shahryari died, that is, on November 29, 2010.
The United Nations imposed sanctions on Abbasi-Dawani for which Western officials said he had participated in an alleged investigation to develop nuclear weapons.
“This terrorist act was carried out by intelligence agencies such as the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and the British MI6,” said Haydar Moslehi, the intelligence minister at the time, indicating that members of a group who wanted to carry out a terrorist act but they failed. They admitted that they received training from those intelligence services.
Abbasi-Dawani served as vice president and director of the Atomic Energy Organization in February 2011, according to the Fars news agency at the time, but the agency “IRNA” reported that he was removed from his post in August 2013.
