Iran’s nuclear brain liquidated, was it Israel?

The car in which Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh († 62) was the victim of an attack on Friday is riddled with bullets. Debris from an explosion spreads, blood pools on the street. Shortly after the attack in a Tehran suburb, the father of the Iranian nuclear program dies in a hospital. Iranian politicians speak of a “terrorist attack”, accuse the two arch enemies of Iran, the United States and Israel, and threaten “terrible revenge”.

Fakhrizadeh is not the first Iranian nuclear scientist to be assassinated, but possibly the most important. He was an expert in rocket-making and is considered the father of the “Amad” and “Hope” nuclear programs, where the atomic bomb is said to have been tweaked. Iran itself had always denied such bombing ambitions.