Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is one of those precious men in the shadows that death ends up revealing to posterity.
"
If our enemies had not committed this vile crime and shed the blood of our dear martyr, he could have remained unknown,
" said Defense Minister Amir Hatami, unable to contain his tears near the body of the physicist , during a ceremony Monday at the Ministry of Defense in Tehran.
But today, he "
is revealed to the whole world
", added the senior Iranian official, of whom Fakhrizadeh - as we learned at his funeral - was his deputy with the rank of deputy minister.
Unlike the other "great martyr" - General Qassem Solaimani who led Iran's armed wing outside its borders, assassinated in January by the United States in Iraq - the eminent 59-year-old nuclear physicist, paunchy and with the thick pepper and salt beard, was known only to those who killed him on Friday on a road near Tehran, and behind them the Israeli Mossad agents, as well
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