The former head of the Armed Forces' research division told Israel Today following the assassination: "Only Israel and the United States could have done so."
World expert and Revolutionary Guards officer.
Mohsin Fahrizda
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The media in Iran
"The target is not surprising":
Following the dramatic assassination in Iran, by the head of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, Muhsan Fahrizadeh, tonight (Friday) Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser spoke with "Israel Today" and told about the dramatic action and its consequences.
Kuperwasser, head of the Armed Forces' research division and former director of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and now a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs, compared the importance of Fahrizda to that of former Revolutionary Guards chief Hassan Suleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq earlier this year. Of the assassination, towards the end of the term of President of the United States Donald Trump.
"The target is not surprising, the chief scientist of the Iranian nuclear program," Kuperwasser said, adding, "The timing is probably derived from two factors: the first is the end of Trump's presidency, and the progress of the Iranian nuclear program - in which the enriched material accumulates. Perform now. "
The evacuation of the Iranian scientist Muhsin Fahrizda to the hospital after his assassination
Kuperwasser added that "Fahrizadeh is Qassim Suleimani of the nuclear program. There were some people who were prominent in Iranian action. In the field of spreading the revolution, the leading factor was Suleimani. While in the nuclear program, Fahrizadeh was the leading factor. Who saw him as a 'son of death'.
Only an event like this can be performed by Israel and the United States.
As you may recall, the 61-year-old Fahrizda was shot dead tonight in Tehran while driving his car, after unknown individuals opened fire on him.
Fahrizadeh headed the Iranian nuclear project, and was known as a world-renowned expert in nuclear physics.
In addition, he was also a professor at Imam Hussein University in Tehran, and the head of the Center for Modern Defense Preparedness and Technologies in Iran's Ministry of Defense, had the rank of officer in the Revolutionary Guards.