Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior Iranian nuclear physicist whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had named as the head of an alleged Iranian programme to build a nuclear bomb, was assassinated by gunmen on Friday in an attack in the town of Absard, about 175 km east of Tehran. Iranian officials have threatened to retaliate for the murder.
The assassination of Imam Hussein University professor and senior Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi was the “highpoint” of a long-running “Israeli strategic plan” aimed at sabotaging Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme, and deprived Tehran “of an irreplaceable source of knowledge”, The Times of Israel has reported, citing local Hebrew-language media.
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