{"id":72858,"date":"2020-11-27T20:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/11\/27\/iran-scientist-linked-to-military-nuclear-program-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:37:05","slug":"iran-scientist-linked-to-military-nuclear-program-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2020\/11\/27\/iran-scientist-linked-to-military-nuclear-program-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran scientist linked to military nuclear program killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 An Iranian scientist named by the West as the leader of the Islamic Republic\u2019s disbanded military nuclear program was killed Friday in an ambush on the outskirts of Tehran, authorities said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran\u2019s foreign minister alleged the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh bore \u201cserious indications\u201d of an Israeli role, but did not elaborate. Israel, long suspected of killing several Iranian nuclear scientists a decade ago, declined to immediately comment. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once told the public to \u201cremember that name\u201d when talking about Fakhrizadeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The killing risks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/newsletters\/daily-news-roundup\/2019\/12\/13\/pompeo-warns-of-decisive-us-response-if-iran-harms-us-troops-or-allies\/\" target=_blank>further raising tensions<\/a> across the Mideast, nearly a year after Iran and the U.S. stood on the brink of war when an American drone strike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/01\/03\/iran-leader-killed-in-strike-linked-to-years-of-attacks-killing-of-more-than-1000-us-troops-during-iraq-war\/\" target=_blank>killed a top Iranian general<\/a> in Baghdad. It comes just as President-elect Joe Biden stands poised to be inaugurated in January and will likely complicate his efforts to return America to a pact aimed at ensuring Iran does not have enough highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That deal, which saw Iran limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, has entirely unraveled after President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2020\/10\/19\/un-arms-embargoes-on-iran-expires\/\" target=_blank>withdrew from the accord<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump himself retweeted a posting from Israeli journalist Yossi Melman, an expert on the Israeli Mossad intelligence service, about the killing. Melman\u2019s tweet called the killing a \u201cmajor psychological and professional blow for Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/2019\/06\/04\/what-war-with-iran-could-look-like\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_19098471996944.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">What war with Iran could look like<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Military Times interviewed more than a dozen military experts, including current and former U.S. military officials, about how a conflict might begin and how it could play out. This is what they said could happen:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details about the slaying remained slim in the hours after the attack, which happened in Absard, a village just east of the capital that is a retreat for the Iranian elite. Iranian state television said an old truck with explosives hidden under a load of wood blew up near a sedan carrying Fakhrizadeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Fakhrizadeh\u2019s sedan stopped, at least five gunmen emerged and raked the car with rapid fire, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fakhrizadeh died at a hospital after doctors and paramedics couldn\u2019t revive him. Others wounded included Fakhrizadeh\u2019s bodyguards. Photos and video shared online showed a Nissan sedan with bullet holes in the windshield and blood pooled on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of \u201cstate terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTerrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice \u2014 with serious indications of Israeli role \u2014 shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,\u201d Zarif wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/11\/19\/us-attack-risks-full-fledged-war-says-adviser-to-irans-leader\/\" target=_blank>Hossein Dehghan<\/a>, an adviser to Iran\u2019s supreme leader and a presidential candidate in Iran\u2019s 2021 election, also blamed Israel \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/08\/20\/amid-tensions-with-us-iran-introduces-two-new-missiles-named-for-leaders-killed-in-airstrike\/\" target=_blank>issued a warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the last days of their gambling ally\u2019s political life, the Zionists seek to intensify and increase pressure on Iran to wage a full-blown war,\u201d Dehghan wrote, appearing to refer to Trump\u2019s last days in office. \u201cWe will descend like lightning on the killers of this oppressed martyr and we will make them regret their actions!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1199\" height=\"629\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/attack-in-Iran-2.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/attack-in-Iran-2.jpg.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/attack-in-Iran-2.jpg.jpg?resize=300,157 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/attack-in-Iran-2.jpg.jpg?resize=768,403 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/attack-in-Iran-2.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,537 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, right, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 23, 2019. Fakhrizadeh was killed in a targeted attack that saw gunmen use explosives and machine gun fire Friday, state television said. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack comes just days before the 10-year anniversary of the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari that Tehran also blamed on Israel. That and other targeted killings happened at the time that the so-called Stuxnet virus, believed to be an Israeli and American creation, destroyed Iranian centrifuges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The area around Absard, which has a view of Mount Damavand, the country\u2019s highest peak, is filled with vacation villas. Roads on Friday, part of the Iranian weekend, were emptier than normal due to a lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, offering his attackers a chance to strike with fewer people around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fakhrizadeh led Iran\u2019s so-called AMAD program that Israel and the West have alleged was a military operation looking at the feasibility of building a nuclear weapon. Tehran long has maintained its nuclear program is only for civilian purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran \u201ccarried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\u201d in a \u201cstructured program\u201d through the end of 2003. That was the AMAD program, which included work on the carefully timed high explosives needed to detonate an implosion-style nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran also \u201cconducted computer modeling of a nuclear explosive device\u201d before 2005 and between 2005 and 2009, the IAEA has said. The agency said, however, that those calculations were \u201cincomplete and fragmented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IAEA inspectors now monitor Iranian nuclear sites as part of the now-unraveling nuclear deal with world powers. Experts believe Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make at least two nuclear weapons if it chose to pursue the bomb. Meanwhile, an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility exploded in July in what Tehran now calls a sabotage attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fakhrizadeh, born in 1958, had been sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S. for his work on AMAD. Iran always described him as a university physics professor. A member of the Revolutionary Guard, Fakhrizadeh had been seen in pictures in meetings attended by Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a sign of his power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, U.S. sanctions lists name him as heading Iran\u2019s Organization for Defensive Innovation and Research. The State Department described that organization last year as working on \u201cdual-use research and development activities, of which aspects are potentially useful for nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons delivery systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, Netanyahu gave a presentation in which he unveiled what he described as material stolen by Israel from an Iranian nuclear archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA key part of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work,\u201d Netanyahu alleged. \u201cThis is how Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of Project Amad, put it. Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Amir Vahdat and Mohammad Nasiri in Tehran, Iran, and Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing risks further raising tensions across the Mideast, nearly a year after Iran and the U.S. stood on the brink of war when an American drone strike killed a top Iranian general in 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