Back in November, an assassination of a very prominent Iranian general occurred and it got little to no media coverage. In fact, the man assassinated was dubbed “The Father of Iran’s Nuclear Bomb”, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. He was a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an academic physicist, and a senior official in the nuclear program of Iran. He led the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research for Iran which had contributed to the building of the country’s nuclear program. His activities did attract quite the attention with both the UN Security Council and the US government ordering his assets frozen in the mid-2000s.
On November 27th, 2020, Fakhrizadeh was scheduled for an important meeting and although his own security team were against travelling he continued. While on a rural road in Absard, just outside of Tehran, his convoy was ambushed and he was killed. From there it is a little muddy as to what actually happened. There was an initial account that described a Nissan truck carrying explosives which detonated near Fakhrizadeh’s car. Shortly afterwards, gunmen emerged and fired upon the vehicle. There was a gunfight between Fakhrizadeh’s bodyguards and the assailants which resulted in his death.
Another account, describes the incident involving 12 highly trained special forces gunmen accompanied by roughly 50 support personnel who attacked the convoy. At first, the same Nissan truck from the first incident was detonated which stopped to convoy. Then an assault squad descended onto the convoy with sniper support. A Hyundai Santa Fe and at least four motorcycles approached the convoy and got Fakhrizadeh out of the vehicle at which point he was shot.
Finally, the last account that seems to appear is one that involves no gunmen and is strictly an remote-controlled attack. In this version, Fakhrizadeh exits the vehicle for an unknown reason, at which point a remote-controlled machine gun strikes him at least 13 times from a distance of 150 metres. Shortly afterwards, the same Nissan truck from all the other incidents is detonated.
It is still unknown how actually he died, but it appears scenario 2 is the most accurate one. Either way, Fakhrizazdeh died while medical personnel worked on him in the hospital. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, however on December 8th, Iranian authorities arrested several individuals in relation to the attack. There has never been a media release for more information on this.
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