News: The apparent head of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated, @NPR confirms. It's unclear how he was attacked outside Tehran.
Colleague @nprnishant notes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Fakhrizadeh in the past.
“Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh,” he said on April 30, 2018, when announcing that Israel's Mossad had stolen documents from Iran about its covert nuclear activities.
“Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh,” he said on April 30, 2018, when announcing that Israel's Mossad had stolen documents from Iran about its covert nuclear activities.
At this early moment, the one source for this story is Iran's government: the defense ministry, official news agencies. Descriptions of "terrorists bombing a car before shooting at Mr. Fakhrizadeh’s car” will be hard to independently verify. True of many breaking stories.
Now Iran's foreign minister gestures toward Israel, though again we have only Iran's statements at this point: no comment yet from Israel or the US.
https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1332345633425022976?s=20
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The scientist was a target of US sanctions. This statement from 2019 says he ran Iran’s pre-2004 nuclear weapons program. When Iran froze its plans, he transitioned to an agency called SPND, which the US describes as a sort of shadow nuclear program.
state.gov/the-imposition…
state.gov/the-imposition…
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