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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also vowed revenge for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom Israel and the West believe was the director of Iran’s secret nuclear program. However, Khamenei, who denies his country has nuclear ambitions, vowed to continue Fakhrizadeh’s work and said Iranian officials would take on the task of “investigating the crime and punishing those who committed it and those who committed it.” who ordered it ”.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top official who says Tehran has never wanted to develop a nuclear weapon, promised in a statement to continue the work of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who died on Friday after his car was ambushed by unknown attackers. a suburb of Tehran.
The assassination, for which Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was quick to accuse Israel, threatens to ignite a new confrontation in the final weeks of US President Donald Trump’s term. Several Iranian military and religious leaders, including one of the ayatollah’s top military advisers, have previously said they will take revenge, suggesting that Israel was behind the attack.
It could also complicate any efforts by President-elect Joe Biden to revive the relaxation with Tehran that was conceived when he was part of the Barack Obama administration. Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the international nuclear agreement signed in 2015 with Tehran.
Khamenei also stated in his Twitter post that Iranian officials must take on the task of “investigating the crime and punishing those who committed it and those who ordered it.”
Israel declined to comment on the assassination, as did the White House, the Pentagon, the US State Department and the CIA, as did Joe Biden’s transition team.
Fakhrizadeh was not a visible public figure, but is believed to have led what the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and US intelligence services say was Iran’s 2003 nuclear weapons program.
The scientist was a central figure in a 2018 presentation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he accused Iran of continuing to work to obtain the nuclear weapon. “Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh,” Netanyahu said at the time.
Publisher: Adrian Dumitru
