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“Once again, the evil hands of world arrogance, with the usurping Zionist regime acting as a mercenary, have been stained with the blood of the son of this country,” Rouhani said in a statement on the president’s official website about the assassination. of the scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
In Iran, it is common to call the United States the “arrogance of the world.”
Fakhrizadeh was “seriously injured” on Friday after assailants fired at his car and engaged in a shootout with his bodyguards during an attack near Tehran, the Iranian Defense Ministry said.
The report says Fakhrizadeh, who led the ministry’s research and innovation organization, later became a “martyr” when doctors failed to revive him.
Rouhani promised that Fakhrizadeh’s death would not “interrupt” Iran’s scientific progress, and said the assassination reflected the “weakness and inability” of Tehran’s enemies to halt the development of the Shiite republic.
The president expressed his condolences to the “scientific community and the revolutionary people of Iran.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that there were “serious signs of Israel’s role” in Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
In 2008, the United States imposed sanctions on Fakhrizadeh for “participation in activities and transactions that contributed to the development of Iran’s nuclear program.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the specialist the “father” of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.
The 59-year-old scientist died while driving near the city of Absard, in the eastern Damanand district of Tehran province.
The New York Times reported that a US official and two other intelligence officials had confirmed that the attack was organized by Israel, but did not provide further details.
Fakhrizadeh was assassinated less than two months before Joe Biden was sworn in as President of the United States.
Biden vows to return to diplomacy with Iran and abandon President Donald Trump’s four-year military policy toward the country. In 2018, the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and returned tough sanctions on Tehran.
Trump said at the time that the agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), did not provide sufficient guarantees that Tehran would not be able to produce nuclear weapons.
Iran has always denied that it wants to replenish its arsenal with such weapons.
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