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A car with bullet holes in the windshield at the site where Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed. Stock Photography.
Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed using a satellite-controlled machine gun with artificial intelligence, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi told Iranian news agency Mehr News.
The assassination has increased tensions in the region, where Israel has been singled out by Iran for the act.
Fakhrizadeh was traveling by car on a highway on the outskirts of the capital, Tehran, along with eleven security guards when he was killed. The machine gun “zoomed in” on the nuclear physicist and fired 13 shots at him, according to Fadavi.
The murder was carried out so flawlessly that Fakhrizadeh’s wife, who was sitting 12 inches from him in the car, was not hit, writes Mehr News. A security guard who threw himself at the nuclear physicist in connection with the attack was shot four times.
There was also a car explosion in connection with the act.
There were no “terrorists” at the scene of the murder, according to Ali Fadavi.
The information has not been confirmed, although the Fars news agency without reference to the source previously wrote that the weapon was remotely controlled.
The Defense Ministry stated at an early stage that Fakhrizadeh was killed in a shootout between several perpetrators and the bodyguards of the nuclear physicist.
Iran has singled out both Israel and the People’s Mujahedin partially armed resistance movement as guilty of the murder. The country has also vowed revenge.
Israel has previously claimed that Fakhrizadeh was the mastermind behind an alleged secret nuclear weapons program.
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