Scientist involved in the Iranian nuclear program shot dead in Tehran. Iran accuses Israel of being behind the attack – News

Officially identified as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the Research and Innovation Department of this portfolio, was “seriously injured” when his car was attacked by several individuals, who exchanged fire with his security team.

Still according to the statement, doctors tried to revive him, without success.

“The terrorists today murdered a prominent Iranian scientist. This cowardice – with serious evidence of Israel’s role – shows the desperate war of its perpetrators,” wrote Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Twitter.

The head of diplomacy also called on the international community to “end the shameful ambivalent positions [de Israel] and condemn this terrorist act “.

According to the agency Reuters, Fakhrizadeh was identified by the American and Israeli surveillance services as the leader of a secret program to create an atomic bomb in Iran, which was stopped in 2003.

Reuters quotes Iranian news agency Tasnim, which said that “the terrorists blew up another car” before shooting at the vehicle carrying the scientist and his security team in what would have been an ambush outside Tehran.

That murder comes less than two months before Democratic Joe Biden, winner of the November 3 elections in the United States, arrived at the White House.

Biden plans to change the country’s stance on Iran after Donald Trump’s four-year presidency. The Republican withdrew the United States from the agreement with the great powers signed in 2015 in Vienna on the Tehran nuclear program. Since then, the United States has reinstated and tightened sanctions against the Middle Eastern country.

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