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Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi said they knew the place of the murder 5 days before it happened.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi said Tuesday that a member of the country’s armed forces was involved in the murder of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which took place more than two months ago.
Alawi added – in a program on state television – that the intelligence services, two months before the murder of Fakhri Zadeh, had provided the Armed Forces with information about the possibility of a murder in the same area, indicating that despite this , the necessary measures had not been taken.
He explained that the intelligence service knew the location of the operation 5 days before it was carried out, but could not frustrate it because it was prepared by a member of the Armed Forces.
He indicated that Iranian intelligence had not been able to determine the time of the murder.
And he added that because his ministry was not allowed to carry out intelligence work within the armed forces, “we asked the armed forces to appoint a representative to investigate the possibility of carrying out an operation against Fakhri Zadeh, but the murder occurred before nominating a representative. “
Alawi did not mention any information about the aforementioned military member, however Iranian officials had previously announced that one of the suspects in Fakhrizadeh’s murder left the country days before the assassination.
Fakhrizadeh (63 years old), known as the “godfather of the nuclear agreement”, was assassinated on November 27, 2020, after attacking a car in which he was traveling near Tehran, while Iran accused Israel of carrying out the murder .
Last December, Iran announced the arrest of some of the participants in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, saying that the perpetrators of the assassination would not go unpunished.
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said last month that there is real and solid evidence confirming Israel’s involvement in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and emphasized Tehran’s determination to answer those who killed him.
Hatami added that Iran has the right to respond to Israel, stressing that Tehran is the one who decides when, where and how this response will be, and warned against not responding to the killing of Zadeh, considering that this will incentivize the repetition of what he said. described as crimes that make the world and the region less safe, according to himself.
Last December, General Ali Fadawi, deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, said that the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was carried out with sophisticated satellite-controlled equipment, and that there were no attackers at the scene.
Fadawi added that the murder was carried out by a machine gun that was controlled via satellites using artificial intelligence technology, to accurately identify Fakhri Zadeh’s face and target it.
He indicated that 13 bullets were fired, 5 of which hit Fakhri Zadeh and one hit one of his bodyguards.
He explained that 11 guards were accompanying Fakhrizadeh and that the explosion in the cargo car was targeting his bodyguards.
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