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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed with high precision (Photo: Press TV / Twitter)
Iran says the scientist was killed due to the use of satellite-controlled weapons.
Bloomberg reports.
A satellite-guided machine gun was used in the assassination of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist last week, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
According to Commodore Ali Fadawi, deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohsen Fahrizadeh, who was killed on the outskirts of Tehran on November 27, was driving down the highway east of the capital when the gun «directed “at him”, using artificial intelligence.
After the incident, several versions of his death appeared. While early news reports said he was killed in a shootout between his bodyguards, others claimed he was fired upon from a remote-controlled machine gun mounted on a van driven by someone who later fled the country.
Fadawi said Sunday that a total of 13 shots were fired at Fahrizada. The shots hit him with such precision that his wife, who was sitting a few inches from him in the same car, was not injured. He added that at that time, the couple was also accompanied by 11 bodyguards in different vehicles.
A security official said the Iranian scientist was killed remotely. The incident marks the second targeted assassination of a senior Iranian official since January, when outgoing US President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike on General Qasem Soleimani.
Tehran has accused Israel of killing Fakhrizada, the fifth murder of a nuclear scientist on Iranian soil since 2010. Israel did not comment on the charges.
