Israeli intelligence smuggled one-ton gun to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist: Report

Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran in November 2020 was killed by a one-ton gun smuggled into Iran in pieces by Israeli intelligence agency Moss, reported Jewish Chronicle on Wednesday. media outlet cited its intelligence sources to claim that over 20 agents including Israeli and Irani nationals, carried out ambush on scientist Mohsen Fakhrizeh nearly after eight months of surveillance.

Fakhrizeh was killed in November last year in an armed attack that according to an Associated Press report, bore fears of military-style ambush, likes of which Israel has been accused of carrying out in past. November 27, 2020 incident in Iran not only ignited tensions in region but Tehran also placed blame for murder on Israel and Iran’s supreme leer Ali Khamenei demanding “definitive punishment”.

Iranian media, at time, h said that nuclear scientist, that led Tehran’s disbanded military program, died in hospital after armed assassins gunned him down in his car. Shortly after Fakhrizeh’s death, Iran’s Foreign Minister Jav Zarif h started blaming Israel over “serious indications”. As per reports, Israel government did not comment in November last year but recently noted that Jerusalem ‘never’ comments on such matters. nuclear scientist whose unprecedented assassination took Islamic Republic by storm was reportedly long suspected by West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme. 

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Iran to take ‘six years’ to replace Fakhrizeh

As per Jewish Chronicle report, Iran has “secretly assessed that it will take six years” before a replacement for him is “fully operational” and ded that Fakhrizeh’s death h “extended period of time it would take Iran to achieve a bomb from about three-and-a-half months to two years.” However, world’s oldest Jewish newspaper did not give furr details of its sourcing. 

But it reported that Israeli intelligence agency Moss mounted automated gun on a Nissan pickup and “ bespoke weapon, operated remotely by agents on ground as y observed target, was so heavy because it included a bomb that destroyed evidence after killing.” It also noted that attack was orchestrated “by Israel alone, without American involvement” but American officials were notified in some form beforehand. 

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