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A Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran, in a “terrorist act” in which there is “serious indications of an Israeli role“, according to the head of Iranian diplomacy, which increases the tension in the Middle East in the context of the presidential change in the United States which foresees a new strategy in the region.

“Terrorists murdered eminent Iranian scientist. This cowardice – with serious indications of the Israeli role – shows a desperate warmongering on the part of its perpetrators, “he tweeted yesterday. Mohamad Yavad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic. Zariv also urged the international community to “cease its shameful and ambivalent positions and to condemn this terrorist act”.

The scientist, officially identified as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, time Head of the Research and Innovation Department of the Ministry of Defense.
The murder could raise tensions in the Middle East to the point that Iran’s chief of staff, General Mohamad Bagheri, warned that “terrible revenge” He will strike those behind the murder of the eminent scientist. “Terrorist groups and the perpetrators of this cowardly action must know that a terrible revenge awaits them,” Bagheri tweeted, according to the official Irna news agency.

The scientist was “seriously injured” when his car was attacked by several individuals in the capital, who fought with his security team, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense. Fakhrizadeh later died of his injuries, as doctors did their best to revive him.

This scientist had been mentioned in the past by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the father of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Several local media outlets, including the Tasnim and Fars news agencies, had previously reported an assassination attempt against Fakhrizadeh while he was traveling by car near the town of Absard, east of the Iranian capital.

This assassination comes less than two months before the Democrat’s arrival at the White House Joe biden, who plans to change his country’s position vis-à-vis Iran, after four years of Donald Trump’s hostile policy. Under the Republican presidency, the United States withdrew in 2018 from the agreement with the great powers, signed in 2015, on the Iranian nuclear program. Washington then reinstated, and then tightened, sanctions against Tehran.

Trump considers that this agreement does not offer sufficient guarantees to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The Islamic Republic has always denied having sought such weapons. Among his Twitter messages in which he still maintains that there was “fraud” in the elections in his country, Trump retweeted the news yesterday about the murder of the Iranian scientist but did not add a personal comment..

Fakhrizadeh was killed the day after the return via Thailand of three Iranians arrested in a failed bomb attack on Israeli diplomats in Bangkok in 2012. According to the Iranian government, the operation was carried out in exchange for the release on Wednesday of Australian researcher Kylie Moore. -Gilbert, who was sentenced in Iran to ten years in prison for espionage for Israel, a charge she denies.

The investigator, a specialist in the Middle East, was released after 800 days of detention.
Several other scientists specializing in Iran’s nuclear sector have been assassinated in recent years, and Islamic Republic systematically blames Israel.

On the other hand, the newspaper New York Times reported in mid-November that Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, aka Abu Mohamed al Masri and number two in Al Qaeda, was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents, during a secret mission ordered by the United States. Iran has denied the information.