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According to the information, the attack on Fakhrizadeh began with a remote-controlled explosion in a white van next to the car in which he was traveling. Seconds later, the motorcyclists automatically fired at the nuclear physicist’s car and at his security personnel in the accompanying vehicles. During the shooting, three of the bodyguards died. Anonymous TV 13 sources denied Iranian reporting that some of Fakhrizadeh’s trackers had been injured and taken prisoner. “This is the most difficult blow ever inflicted on the Iranian nuclear weapons program,” it was said on all three television channels.
Fakhrizadeh, who considers himself very close to the Iranian ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, became known to a wider audience two years ago. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference after the Mossad intelligence service brought much of Iran’s nuclear energy files to Israel. Fakhrizadeh was portrayed there as the dominant force behind Iran’s nuclear program, both military and civil.
Shortly after i told him Netanyahu’s predecessor, Ehud Olmert, said he was impressed by an advanced operation targeting Fakhrizadeh in 2008. Agents were already close to the target, when Mossad chief Meir Dagan thought it “seemed too easy” and felt a trap. .
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly asked to hear from Fakhrizadeh, but Iran’s leadership has never allowed it.
There are many indications that the Israeli attacks on Iran are taking place in close cooperation with the Iranian resistance fighters Mujahedin-e-Khalq. The movement, which participated in the Iranian revolution in 1979 but lost the power struggle against Islamists, was long branded a terrorist in the West, but no longer.
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