There's not much credible available on Mohsen #Fakhrizadeh's academic history. How come an Iraq war veteran ends up being a scientist? How did he become so imp for the regime to head the prog he did? Fakhrizadeh's head of #Iran's nuclear smuggling ring at best. Not a scientist.
Even his freshly post Wikipedia bio doesn't go beyond stating that #Fakhrizadeh's a faculty member of the Imam Hossein University in 1991 before becoming head of what's later known Physics Research Centre at Lavizan-Shian. No academic papers. No hands-on experience as a scientist
Thu #IAEA never quizzed him, it identified #Fakhrizadeh as a scientist due to his role at SPND and that's that. His old (WSJ) and recent (WaPo) profile don't record his scientific work. As with much of #Iran's arms industry, the top heads arranged vital tech for prog illicitly.
Given #Iran's forte in media ecosystem, myths flooding about 'scientist' #Fakhrizadeh will turn him into a legend, an inspiration.Neither Oppenheimer nor AQ Khan, he's amongst handful people who sold the idea of N bomb. Was authorised to fetch anything from anywhere to realise it
So far unclaimed, #Fakhrizadeh murder's presumably carried out by #Israel for he was parallel of #Soleimani in the world nuclear blackmarket. Noose around illicit supply-chain's tightened over the decade but sans seasoned hands, top secret tech will be ever more harder to access.
Dr @MarkTFitz thinks #Iran's nuke prog has outgrown personalities & #Fakhrizadeh death's aimed to obstruct the Biden diplomacy. But the slain official enjoyed unparalleled trust of the SL office et al, a void of confidence within and amongst the blackmarket won't be easy to fill.
Nonetheless, extra-territorial murder of #Fakhrizadeh is a violation of the int'l law. Unlike #Soleimani, he wasn't known to be involved in raising militias and engaged targeted killings on foreign soils. The 'scientist' had his own share of rogue acts thru the underground market
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