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Social media pioneers circulated an image showing the Israeli flag under which the phrase “Thank you Mossad” was written in Iran and other countries, days after the assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
According to the “Times of Israel” newspaper, which also published the photo, the flag was placed on an advertising banner in a Tehran suburb on Monday and was seen by large numbers of people.
It was unclear who was behind this message, which praised the Israeli intelligence agency, “Mossad.”
Iranian opposition journalists said the flag was placed on a banner in the Pars region near Tehran, while the authorities raised it shortly after and put in its place a banner bearing the image of former Quds Force commander Qassem. Soleimani, next to her a photo of Mohsenzadeh.
Zadeh was killed on November 27 in an attack on his convoy, including a car bomb and a shooting, on a road in the city of Absard in Damavand province, east of Tehran.
Iran accused the Israeli agency “Mossad” and the banned organization “Mujahideen Khalq” of carrying out a “complex” operation using a “completely new” method to assassinate the nuclear scientist.
Since Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, several accounts of the targeted assassination have emerged, and the Iranian Defense Ministry had initially announced that he had died from injuries following the attack on his convoy, which included a car bomb and shootings, while that the Mehr news agency reported that he was killed by a “remote-controlled machine gun.” , Without mentioning any source for this information.
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said Fakhrizadeh was one of his assistants and head of the Research and Innovation Organization at the ministry, and was working in the field of “nuclear defense.”
The “Mujahideen Khalq” organization, the Iranian opposition in exile, rejected Tehran’s accusations of its involvement in the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and described the Iranian regime’s move as “hatred and lies.”
The Iranian scientist was traveling in an armored vehicle, accompanied by a protection team, and his assassination was followed by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Major General Muhammad Baqeri, in “harsh retaliation”.
The US media promised Fakhrizadeh as the “first target” of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) and “the thinking mind of the Iranian nuclear program.”
And the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said Fakhri Zadeh had overseen “activities based on a possible military dimension” within the nuclear program, which began “in the late 1980s” before it was brought under his administration as part. of a program. It was called “Amad” and will be abandoned “at the end of 2003”.
In March 2007, Fakhrizadeh was mentioned among a group of people against whom the UN Security Council has imposed sanctions for his alleged role in the “nuclear or ballistic missile program” in Iran.
A year after the Security Council resolution, the United States included Fakhrizadeh in 2008 on the “black list” of persons subject to sanctions, due to “activities and operations that contributed to the development of Iran’s nuclear program”, which was then under UN sanctions.
