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Fereydoun Abbasi, a member of parliament and former head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Authority, revealed the details of the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. As for Kamal Kharrazi, head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, he said his country would respond “calculated” to the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, at a time when he suggested that the local daily Haba En Israel.
Abbasi said that the nuclear scientist was returning from the north of the country to the capital, accompanied by his personal protection, aboard an armored vehicle that was hit near Damavand, on the outskirts of Tehran, by 3 shots.
There was no suggestion that they were bullets, as the officer explains, prompting Fakhrizadeh to stop the car to find out what was going on.
Abbasi explained that the nuclear scientist and his colleagues were attacked by firing from a remote-controlled automatic weapon that was attached to a car, and not by a group of perpetrators as previously announced. He concluded by saying that Fakhri Zadeh was hit by 3 bullets, two in the shoulder and one in the back, and an explosion followed. Dimension of the vehicle that carries the automatic machine gun.
In context, Reuters cited a statement by Kamal Kharrazi, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, saying: “There is no doubt that Iran will respond with a calculated and decisive response to the criminals who attacked the martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and deprived the Iranian people from him. “
Fakhrizadeh, who had long been suspected by the West and the Israeli government of being the mastermind of a secret nuclear weapons program, was killed on Friday when he was ambushed near the capital Tehran and his car was attacked.
Religious and military leaders in Tehran have blamed Tel Aviv, which had previously been accused of killing several Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010.
The National Security Committee in Parliament confirmed that it had obtained information that the security authorities had accessed important evidence and information about the assassination, and revealed that preliminary investigations indicated that Israel was behind the assassination of Fakhrizadeh.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment on the murder.
But the daily Kayhan, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by the guide, suggested an attack on the coastal city of Haifa in Israel if the latter was shown to have a role in Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
“The attack must be carried out in a way that anticipates a large number of casualties, as well as destroying the facilities,” Saadallah Zarei said in an opinion piece for the newspaper.
Possible answers
In the context of possible Iranian responses, MP Alireza Salimi said that Council members discussed during a closed-door meeting the possibility of restraining the commitment to the Additional Protocol to the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Salimi added that the reason for the unfortunate events and the murder of scientists is the inspection process carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency in the country, he said.
Atomic Energy Authority (National) spokesperson Behrouz Kamalondi had previously said that any decision in this regard will be taken by the relevant higher authorities and not by one of the parties.
For his part, the Speaker of Parliament, Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf, called for a strict response to the assassination of the nuclear scientist and said that this process reveals the fear of the enemies to the achievements and advances of Iran.
Qalibaf added, at a parliament meeting, that the response to Fakhrizadeh’s assassination must be firm and strong “so that the enemy feels remorse” for carrying out this operation.
He stressed that the incident should lead to strengthening Iran’s nuclear power and security, he said.
On the other hand, the commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, Major General Ismail Qaani, said that his country would respond to the assassination of its nuclear scientist.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that an intensified state of alert was declared in the country’s embassies around the world after Iranian threats of retaliation.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz believed that US President Donald Trump, whose presidency will soon end, gave his blessing for the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh, known as the father of the Iranian nuclear project.
He added in his editorial today under the heading “A Dangerous Provocation” that this process carries the potential for a dangerous regional escalation aimed at exploiting the remaining moments of the outgoing (US) president’s term, in order to restrict (the next president) Joe Biden and thwart the American return to the nuclear deal between Iran and the superpowers. .
The funeral ceremony
The funeral of the body of the nuclear scientist and its transfer to the northeastern city of Mashhad began.
And the official IRNA news agency reported this Sunday that the body of Fakhri Zadeh was transferred on Saturday night to Mashhad, for the circumvallation and prayer of the same in the shrine of Imam Ali Al-Ridha, the eighth of the infallible imams among the Shiites.
According to the Defense Ministry, the body will be transported at a later time to the shrine of Mrs. Fatima “Al-Masoumeh” in Qom, south of Tehran, and that its last stop will be tomorrow at the shrine of Imam Khomeini in the capital. Tehran.
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