Iran claims its top nuclear scientist murdered in a sophisticated technology assassination

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Iran’s chief nuclear scientist and mastermind of its controversial nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi was shot dead by what has been described as a sophisticated technology assassination on November 27. 

Iran claimed that artificial intelligence, a satellite guidance system, and facial recognition technology were all deployed to assassinate its chief scientist.

Fakrizadeh developed the Iranian nuke program

Fakhrizadeh served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) since 1979. He was a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and an academic physicist. He was a senior official of Iran’s nuclear program.

Fakhrizadeh developed and led the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research and the Green Salt Project. In the early 2000s, he was on terrorist watchlists. In the mid-2000s, his assets were frozen by the United Nations Security Council and also by the United States.

Iran repeatedly argued that its nuclear program is only used for peaceful purposes. Israel, Saudi Arabia, India, the US, the U.N., and other countries accuse Tehran of continuing to develop lethal nuclear bombs under Fakhrizadeh’s program. The regime is arguably the world’s most dangerous sponsor of terrorism.

A high-tech murder in Iran

Iranian state-backed news agency, the Young Journalists Club (YJC), and Iranian military sources claimed that the murder was carried out remotely aided by satellite tracking, artificial intelligence, automatic remote control machine gun, and a bomb.