The Assassination of the Head of the Military Part of Iran’s Nuclear Programme
The Assassination of the Head of the Military Part of Iran’s Nuclear Programme

Author(s): Marcin Andrzej Piotrowski
Subject(s): Environmental and Energy policy, Military policy, Studies in violence and power
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Iran; nuclear programme; head; assassination;
Summary/Abstract: On 27 November, in an attack on the road to Tehran, Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi was killed. He was identified by Western intelligence agencies as the head of a scientific team working on a nuclear warhead and weaponisation and engaged in some other secret projects of Iran’s Ministry of Defence and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The government of Iran accused Israel, specifically its Mossad intelligence agency, and threatened revenge. The killing of the nuclear scientist will complicate the U.S.-Iran negotiations on the renewal of the provisions of the 2015 nuclear agreement, which was likely the main goal of the attack presumably by Israel.

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