The assassination, on a road east of Tehran, on November 27, 2020, of the father of the Iranian nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, poses a double challenge to the theocratic regime that has ruled Iran for forty years.
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First challenge: the IRGC (Revolutionary Guard) corps, so quick to arrest harmless political opponents, proved incapable of securing the national territory and protecting one of its most eminent officers, Dr Fakhrizadeh.
This physicist was specifically targeted in a conference held in 2018 on the Iranian nuclear danger by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Most likely reporting to the Mossad, the commando that executed him was able to mount a sophisticated ambush on a road near the capital.
In 2020, the IRGC will have had little success.
On January 3, the Americans succeeded in killing their grand chief of foreign operations, General Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad.
On January 11, the IRGC brought down by
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