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An official funeral was held in Tehran for nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in the presence of a limited number of senior military and political leaders, with no public participation due to health measures related to the Corona pandemic, while the Iranian media continues to publish details of his murder, citing official sources.
During the ceremony, which took place today Monday at the Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Amir Hatami said: “Our response to the murder of Fakhri Zadeh is immediate and inevitable, and it will be a severe punishment for those who committed this crime. “.
Hatami stressed that the assassination of Fakhrizadeh would not stop the march of Iran’s nuclear program, but rather accelerate its pace.
The funeral was attended, along with the family of the Iranian scientist, Defense Minister Amir Hatami, the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guard Hossein Salami, the commander of the Quds Force in the Ismail Qaani Guard, the Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alawi, the head of the Atomic Energy Authority of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, and several politicians and parliamentarians. .
The mother of the mourners at the funeral prayer is Diaauddin Aqajanpour, representative of the Iranian leader, Ali Khamenei, and then the body was transferred to the “Imam Zadeh Saleh” mausoleum north of Tehran, where he was buried along with two other nuclear scientists who were murdered in 2010 and 2011.
On Sunday, a ceremony was held honoring 63-year-old Fakhrizadeh, who is described as Iran’s foremost scientist in nuclear energy, as his body was circled in the cities of Qom and Mashhad, and later in the shrine of Imam Khomeini, south of Tehran.
Meanwhile, the secretary of the Iranian National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, confirmed today that “the enemy used a new and complex method and mechanisms of execution in the assassination operation, which was the reason for its success.”
Shamkhani said that over the past 20 years, Fakhrizadeh was subjected to more than one unsuccessful assassination, adding that Iranian intelligence provided accurate reports on the possibility of his target, “but other determining factors led to the success of the assassination.”
