A senior nuclear physicist was murdered, as confirmed by the Iranian Defense Ministry.
The atomic organization's statement caused confusion.
Tehran - As the Iranian state broadcaster
IRIB
and several news agencies have reported, the high-ranking
Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fachrisadeh
fell victim to
an
attack
.
Iran: nuclear physicist murdered - statement causes confusion
Local authorities have also
confirmed
the
murder
.
Some
attackers
are also said to have died.
The spokesman for the
Iranian nuclear organization,
however, contradicted the reports and thus caused confusion.
Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is said to have been murdered in #Tehran.
The Iranian media report.
https://t.co/Vcy6MPBZI6
- euronewsde (@euronewsde) November 27, 2020
The
act
is said to have occurred on Friday in
Ab-Sard
.
In the suburb east of the capital
Tehran
,
Fachrisadeh
is said to have been
attacked
"by
terrorists
", the reports explain.
The
attackers
are said to have exchanged fire with the security team.
The
researcher
was fatally injured and later succumbed to his injuries.
Iran's *
Foreign Minister Mohammed Jawad
called on the international community to "condemn this act of state terror".
Iran: Murdered nuclear physicist is considered the architect of a secret nuclear weapons program
Sarif also
said on Twitter that there was “serious evidence” that
Israel was
involved in the attack.
In
Fachrisadeh
it was the head of the research and innovation department at the
Ministry of Defense of Iran *
.
The expert in the
manufacture of missiles
was also a member of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards
.
Israeli
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
had called him the father of the
Iranian nuclear weapons program *
.
According to the
Fars
news agency
, the Israeli
secret service
is said
to have tried to kill him for years.
According to
Bild,
the
eminent
scientist was in
charge of
the
Iranian nuclear programs
"Amad" and "Hope".
The former has been
rated
by Israel and Western allies as a
military operation
to build an
Iranian atomic bomb
.
Tehran
repeatedly denied this.
In 2003 the International
Atomic Energy Agency
declared
the program to be over.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.