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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>Iran&#8217;s assassinated nuclear chief lies in state as the nation mourns </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who is generally regarded as the &#8216;father&#8217; of Iran&#8217;s bomb program was killed after his convoy was ambushed </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>The scientist was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins in the city of Absard, near Tehran on Friday </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>Details have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who obtained leaked information</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>Simultaneously a gun and bomb attack blasted convoy before Fakhrizadeh was dragged from car and finished off&#8230; then the 12 assassins melted away </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>The killers &#8211; which included a pair of snipers &#8211; formed 62-person group of plotters, reports have revealed </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3e3435"><strong>Iran publicly claims that Israel is behind the hit</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-funeral-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361685"/><figcaption><strong>Ebrahim Raisi &#8211; head of Iran&#8217;s judiciary &#8211; and members of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s family stand by his body. The scientist who is generally regarded as the &#8216;father&#8217; of Iran&#8217;s bomb program &#8211; was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins following an explosion in the city of Absard, 50 miles east of Tehran.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Remarkable detail of the elaborate plot to assassinate &#8216;prominent and distinguished&#8217; Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been leaked as the nation claim Israel is behind the hit.<br>Fakhrizadeh who has been called the &#8216;father&#8217; of Iran&#8217;s bomb program,- was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins following an explosion in the city of Absard, 50 miles east of Tehran.<br>The killer squad, which included a pair of snipers, formed part of a 62-person group of plotters, it has been revealed. The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.<br>Extraordinary detail about Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s final moments was revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who claims he received leaked information from the country&#8217;s authorities.<br>Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s death sent tensions in the regions escalating as Iran has repeatedly blamed Israel&#8217;s national intelligence agency Mossad for the the assassination. Furthermore, several prominent figures vowing revenge.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ayatollah-Ebrahim-Raisi-pays-respect-to-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361717"/><figcaption><strong>Details of the elaborate plot to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh has been leaked, as Iran publicly claims that Israel is behind the hit</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-funeral-2.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-funeral-2.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza carry the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in Mashhad, Iran </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-location-3-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361687"/><figcaption><strong> Fakhrizadeh was targeted because as head of the ministry of defense’s research and innovation organization, he was clearly still a key player in the country&#8217;s nuclear progra</strong>m</figcaption></figure>



<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei &#8211; who has the final say on all matters of state &#8211; yesterday said Iran&#8217;s first priority after the killing was the &#8216;definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.&#8217; He did not elaborate. <br>And, in an intervention that risks inflaming conflict even further, a former head of the US&#8217;s Central Intelligence Agency labelled the assassination a &#8216;criminal&#8217; act and branded it &#8216;highly reckless&#8217;.<br>John Brennan &#8211; who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama &#8211; said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Fakhrizadeh but said it &#8216;risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict&#8217;.<br>Israel was behind the attack, one American official and two other intelligence officials also told the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-scientist-assassinated-mohsen-fakhrizadeh.html">New York Times</a>.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-detailed-plans-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-detailed-plans-1.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze said the attack was planned for a roundabout in Absard, at the foot of a tree-lined boulevard which enters the city</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed Friday in an ambush involving an explosion and then machine gun fire on a road between the countryside town of Absard and the capital of Tehran. <br>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed revenge.<br>The 12-man team, which allegedly included a pair of snipers, formed part of a 62-person strong group of plotters. The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.<br>The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-scene.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361514"/><figcaption><strong>The 12-man killer squad which included a pair of snipers, was a 62-person strong group of plotters. The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Extraordinary detail about Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s final moments were revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who claims he received leaked information from the country&#8217;s authorities.<br>Ahwaze said the attack was planned for a roundabout in Absard, at the foot of a tree-lined boulevard which enters the city.<br>Fakhrizadeh died on Friday after being seriously wounded when assailants targeted his car and engaged in a gunfight with his bodyguards outside Tehran, according to Iran&#8217;s defense ministry.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ayatollah-Ali-Khamene-left-and-MohMohsen-Fakhrizadeh-right-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361698"/><figcaption><strong>Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (left) was killed in an ambush involving an explosion and then machine gun fire on a road between the countryside town of Absard and the capital of Tehran on Friday. Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) has vowed revenge</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohammad-Bagher-Ghalibaf-centre-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohammad-Bagher-Ghalibaf-centre-1.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf [center] chairs a closed session in the capital Tehran to investigate the killing of Fakhrizadeh</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Iran&#8217;s top nuclear scientist has been on the radar of western countries for decades. Going back to 2008, US slapped sanctions on Fakhrizadeh for &#8216;activities and transactions that contributed to the development of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program&#8217;.<br>Iran President Hassan Rouhani pinned the blame for the killing on &#8216;the wicked hands of the global arrogance,&#8217; a term usually used to refer to the United States.<br>Giving details of the assassination plot, Ahwaze said the attack was planned for a roundabout in Absard, at the foot of a tree-lined boulevard which enters the city. <br>The team had been watching Fakhrizadeh, and knew that he was going to be driving from Tehran to Absard on Friday. <br>The mountain retreat of 10,000 people is where many well-off Tehranis have second homes, and Fakhrizadeh, 59, had a villa there.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-2-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-2-1.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Investigators at the scene of the attack in Damavand, near Tehran that killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh</strong>.<strong> Iranian media reports said the attackers opened fire on the scientist in his car</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The narrative is that the 12 assassins &#8211; described as being highly-trained and assisted by &#8216;security and intelligence services abroad&#8217; &#8211; were deployed to Absard while the remaining 50 people in the 62-person strong group helped with logistical support. Ahwaze did not specify whether the logistics support was provided from within Iran, or abroad. <br>A Hyundai Santa Fe with four passengers, four motorcycles and two snipers were waiting for Fakhrizadeh at the scene of the ambush &#8211; along with a booby-trapped Nissan pickup.<br>Half an hour before Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s convoy of three bulletproof cars arrived, the electricity was cut off to the area, Ahwaze reported. <br>The team were in place when the first car passed the roundabout. <br>As the third car passed, the Nissan exploded, damaging electricity poles and transmitters, according to a state TV report from the area on Friday night. <br>The force of the explosion from the bomb reportedly, hurled debris at least 300 meters.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadehs-car-2.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohsen-Fakhrizadehs-car-2.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Images from the scene of the attack in Damavand, near Tehran show blood-soaked road and bullet holes in the ca</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The team of 12 assassins, including two snipers, opened fire on the second car, containing Fakhrizadeh.<br>As the security detail returned fire, an intense gunfight ensued, according to Sepah Cybery, a social media channel affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.<br>Ahwaze tweeted: &#8216;According to Iranian leaks, the leader of the assassination team took Fakhrizadeh out of his car and shot him and made sure he was killed.&#8217;<br>The hit squad then vanished, having sustained no losses to their team, according to the report. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Iranians-mourners-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-at-Imam-Reza-Shrine-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361708"/><figcaption><strong>Mourners carry images of <strong>Fakhrizadeh</strong> during the funeral procession for Iran&#8217;s assassinated top nuclear scientist at Imam Reza Shrine</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Iranians-mourners-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-at-Imam-Reza-Shrine-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361713"/><figcaption><strong>Mourners are seen during the funeral of top nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh in Mashhad, Iran, on Nov 29</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>They knew the man they were protecting had for years been Mossad&#8217;s number one target. <br>A police helicopter landed in the area to transport Fakhrizadeh and others to the hospital, according to a video posted by a resident who said &#8216;several people are dead.&#8217; <br>When members of Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s security detail arrived in hospital, they were surprised to find that there was no electricity, after the power had been cut. They are then transported to Tehran.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Iranians-mourners-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-at-Imam-Reza-Shrine-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-361715"/><figcaption><strong>Assassination fallout: Protesters burn US and Israel flags during a demonstration against Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s assassination. Iran has blamed Israel for the attack</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-scene-2.jpg?w=620&;ssl=1" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-assassination-scene-2.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Chaotic scene at site of the suspected car bombing that killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh</strong> <strong>in Damavand on Friday</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Israel has often favored covert &#8216;wet work&#8217; tactics against its enemies &#8211; including assassinations.<br>The country&#8217;s national intelligence agency Mossad has been accused carrying out attacks on members of Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas in recent years.<br>At 10.28am EST (7.30pm local time) on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, said that &#8216;an eminent Iranian scientist&#8217; had been killed, with the suspected aid of Israel. <br>Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s body lay in a flag-draped, open coffin at a mosque on Saturday in central Tehran, where Iran&#8217;s chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi, prayed over his body in a public spectacle of mourning. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-funeral-3.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-funeral-3.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>A coffin with an image of Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh, can be seen among the servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Friday&#8217;s attack comes just days before the 10-year anniversary of the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari and the incident has served to escalate tensions in the region.<br>Iran has accused Israel of trying to provoke a war by killing the scientist &#8211; who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once called out publicly when he said: &#8216;Remember that name&#8217;, in a news conference. <br>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called Fakhrizadeh &#8216;the country&#8217;s prominent and distinguished nuclear and defensive scientist.&#8217;<br>Khamenei said Iran&#8217;s first priority after the killing was the &#8216;definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it,&#8217; but he did not elaborate. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Iranians-demonstrators-protest-the-assassination-of-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-in-Tehran-4.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Iranians-demonstrators-protest-the-assassination-of-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-in-Tehran-4.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Demonstrators clutch signs denouncing Israel, as they gather to protest the assassination in Tehran</strong> </figcaption></figure>



<p>Tehran blamed that attack on Israel too as it came at the height of Western fears over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.<br>Hossein Dehghan &#8211; who is a presidential candidate in Iran&#8217;s 2021 election as well as an adviser to its supreme leader Ali Khamenei &#8211; echoed the claim that Israel was behind the attack.<br>&#8216;In the last days of their gambling ally&#8217;s political life, the Zionists seek to intensify and increase pressure on Iran to wage a full-blown war,&#8217; said Dehghan, apparently referring to Donald Trump&#8217;s last days in office as US president.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Iranians-mourners-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-at-Imam-Reza-Shrine-3.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Iranians-mourners-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-at-Imam-Reza-Shrine-3.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Protesters burn pictures of US President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump during a demonstration against the killing of Fakhrizadeh</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>It comes amid fears that the Trump administration could order a strike on Iran in the weeks before the president relinquishes power to President-Elect Joe Biden.<br>Dehghan added: &#8216;We will descend like lightning on the killers of this oppressed martyr and we will make them regret their actions.&#8217; <br>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also said Israel was to blame for the ambush in a televised speech on Saturday, and said Iran would retaliate for the killing of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi at &#8216;the proper time&#8217;. <br>Rouhani said: &#8216;Our people are wiser than to fall in the trap of the Zionist regime [Israel] &#8230; Iran will surely respond to the martyrdom of our scientist at the proper time.&#8217; </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Demonstrators-protest-the-assassination-of-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-in-Habboubi-Square-in-Iraqs-southern-city-of-Nasiriyah.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Demonstrators-protest-the-assassination-of-Mohsen-Fakhrizadeh-in-Habboubi-Square-in-Iraqs-southern-city-of-Nasiriyah.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>Demonstrators are seen gathering at a protest site in Habboubi Square in Iraq&#8217;s southern city of Nasiriyah on Saturday</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Rouhani said that Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s death would not stop its nuclear program, something Supreme Leader Khamenei said as well. <br>Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had suggested Israel was behind the attack, &#8216;Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist&#8217;, he said.<br>Zarif wrote on Twitter: &#8216;This cowardice &#8211; with serious indications of Israeli role &#8211; shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators.<br>&#8216;Iran calls on the international community &#8211; and especially the EU &#8211; to end their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror.&#8217;<br>Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy leader of Lebanon&#8217;s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement placed the response for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran&#8217;s hands: &#8216;We condemn this heinous attack and see that the response to this crime is in the hands of those concerned in Iran,&#8217; Qassem said in an interview with Al Manar television on Friday.<br>Fakhrizadeh was killed by &#8216;those sponsored by America and Israel&#8217; and said the assassination was part of a war on Iran and the region, he said.<br>So far Israel has declined to immediately comment on the killing of Fakhrizadeh.</p>

Iranian journalist details how gun and bomb attack blasted convoy of nuclear chief before he was dragged from car and finished off… then 12 assassins ‘melted away’
