The weapon was controlled “by the internet” via satellite and used a “sophisticated camera and artificial intelligence,” Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said.
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AFP
05:00 PM / 06/12/2020-
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A sub-machine gun controlled by satellite, with the help of “artificial intelligence”, was used to assassinate an Iranian nuclear physicist at the end of November, said this Sunday, December 6, the deputy commander in chief of the Guardians of the Revolution, Ali Fadavi, to a local medium.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, assassinated on November 27 in an attack with explosives and firearms, was driving on a road with a security team made up of 11 guardians of the Revolution, when the submachine gun “zoomed in” on his face and fired thirteen bullets. Rear Admiral Fadavi said, quoted by the Mehr press agency.
The weapon, placed on a van, “was simply concentrated on the face of the martyr Fakhrizadeh in such a way that his wife, who was only 25 centimeters away, was not hit by a bullet,” he added.
This device was “controlled by the internet” via satellite and used a “sophisticated camera and artificial intelligence” to find its target, Fadavi continued, specifying that the scientist’s chief of security received four bullets “when it was thrown” on him to protect him.
“There was no terrorist in the place,” he said.
The Mehr agency, and other local media, did not specify whether Fadavi reported the deaths of other people in this attack.
The Iranian authorities accused Israel and the People’s Mujahideen, an opposition group banned in Iran, of this murder.
After the attack, several versions were given about the death of the scientist. Defense Minister Amir Hatami indicated that he was the victim of an attack with explosives and a shooting, while the Fars press agency claimed a few days later, without citing sources, that a “remote-controlled automatic machine gun” had been used and placed about a truck.
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