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Tehran – The deputy commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed with a machine gun using “artificial intelligence,” according to a statement he made to a local news agency.
Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed on November 27 while attacking his convoy, including a car bomb and bullet fire, on a road in the city of August in Damavand province, east of Tehran.
“The shooting was controlled via satellites and the Internet, and there were no terrorists at the scene,” said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander-in-chief, Brigadier General Ali Fadawi. As quoted by the Iranian news agency Mehr.
Fadawi said that “11 guards were accompanied by the martyr Fakhri” and that “the focus of the shots was on the face of the martyr Fakhri Zadeh only, and the martyr’s wife was not injured even though she was 25 cm from him” .
“The head of the martyr protection team Fakhri Zadeh received four bullets because he was thrown at the martyr Fakhri Zadeh, and there were no hostile personnel at the scene to shoot the guards,” he said.
Iran accused the Israeli “Mossad” and the banned organization “Mujahideen Khalq” of carrying out a “complex” operation using a “completely new” method to assassinate the nuclear scientist.
The official Iranian Press TV had previously reported that the weapons used in Fakhrizadeh’s assassination were “made in Israel.”
“The weapon that was recovered from the site of the terrorist act (where Fakhri Zadeh was killed) bears the motto and specifications of the Israeli military industry,” a source who asked not to be named told TV Press.
Since the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh, several accounts of the targeted assassination have emerged, and the Defense Ministry had initially announced that he died from his injuries following an operation directed against his convoy that included a car bomb and shootings, while that the Mehr Agency spoke of his death by a “machine gun that was remotely controlled”, from without mentioning any source of 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.”
Western and Israeli governments have long suspected that Fakhrizadeh is the mastermind of a secret nuclear weapons program.
The liquidation of Fakhri Zadeh deepened the trap of the Iranian regime, which had not healed months after US forces in Iraq assassinated the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani.
