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New details have been revealed regarding the 2020 assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Faklizadeh, who Tehran denounced at Israeli Mossad spy agency.
Israel has never publicly argued responsibility. Burning of hostility Between the two countries in June.
However, the latest Jerusalem post report claims that Faklizadeh was first shot while sitting in his car on November 27, 2020. According to Israeli newspapers, he died shortly afterwards.
This new information appears to support an official explanation of Iranian events, released by Major General Ali Shamhani, secretary of Iran’s highest security council. Shamkhani said at the time that Fakhrizadeh was killed by a remotely controlled machine gun linked to a satellite system.
The Israeli Intelligence Agency confirmed that a weapon that matches its description – a US-made M240C 7.62mm machine gun – was partially smuggled into Iran and assembled for eight months by a Mossad team of around 20 operatives.
The gun was reportedly attached to a blue Zamiyadh pickup truck parked along Imam Khomeini Road in Tehran and operated remotely to minimize the risk to Faklizadeh’s wife, who was traveling with him at the time of the assassination.
The second vehicle equipped with a camera is said to have been used to confirm the moment of scientists’ identity before the ambush. The claims could not be verified independently.
Long considered by the Western and Israeli intelligence agencies as a central figure in Iran’s nuclear program, Fakhrizadeh was declared a “martist” by Iranian authorities and was given a state funeral.
Iranian sources said Mossad had been considering targeting Fakhrizadeh in 2009 under then-director Meia Daggan, but internal debates about the feasibility of such a surgical procedure reportedly delayed any action.
By 2020, Fakhrizadeh’s operational role may have become more interchangeable, but his strategic importance and access Ayatollah Arihamene It was reportedly not subtle.
It is widely believed that his murder retreated Iran’s nuclear ambitions every few months or years, while increasing Israel’s secret operational capabilities and intelligence.
