[News] US officials say Israel was behind the assassination

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US
officials say Israel was behind the assassination: New York TimesNovember
27, 2020
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*Three US officials have said that Israel was behind the assassination of
Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in a terrorist attack near the capital
Tehran, according to a report.*

“One American official — along with two other intelligence officials — said
that Israel was behind the attack on the scientist,” *The New York Times*
reported on Friday.

“It was unclear how much the United States may have known about the
operation in advance, but the two nations are the closest of allies and
have long shared intelligence regarding Iran,” it added.

Fakhrizadeh,59, had been targeted on Friday in a multi-pronged attack
involving at least one explosion and small fire by a number of assailants
in Absard city of Damavand County, Tehran Province.

The attack targeted the vehicle carrying Fakhrizadeh, who headed the
Iranian Defense Ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and
Research (SPND), the Fars news agency said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Mohammad Javad Zarif roundly condemned the terror
attack, saying there were “serious indications” of the Israeli regime’s
role in the assassination of Fakhrizadeh, a professor of physics at Imam
Hussein University of Tehran.

“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This
cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate
warmongering of perpetrators,” he said in a tweet.

The top Iranian diplomat called on the international community, especially
the European Union, to “end their shameful double standards & condemn this
act of state terror.”

Fakhrizadeh’s name was mentioned multiple times in a presentation in 2018
by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which he repeated
baseless claims about the Iranian nuclear program.

Netanyahu described the scientist as the director of Iran’s nuclear program
and threatened, “Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh.”

The Tel Aviv regime has made several attempts over the past years to throw
a wrench in Tehran’s peaceful nuclear work.

The regime has been behind the assassination of several Iranian nuclear
scientists. It has also conduced cyberattacks on Iranian nuclear sites.

That’s a telling analysis from @nytimes
<https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> reflecting readiness of
US establishment to give green light to political extra territorial
assasinations. Not a thing to boast for a democratic country! #Iran
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> #Fakhrizadeh
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fakhrizadeh?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
https://t.co/OdFum1ftLu
— Dmitry Polyanskiy (@Dpol_un) November 27, 2020
<https://twitter.com/Dpol_un/status/1332388886933286914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

*The New York Times *summarized the “chilling message” that “American
officials” wanted to send to Iranian top scientists with the assassination
of Fakhrizadeh: “If we can get him, we can get you, too.” Indistinguishable
from Mafia talk.

Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy,
tweeted, “That’s a telling analysis from @nytimes reflecting readiness of
US establishment to give green light to political extra territorial
assassinations. Not a thing to boast for a democratic country! #Iran
#Fakhrizadeh.”
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