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Israel remotely killed nuclear scientist, says Iranian official

Updated on: 01 December,2020 11:21 AM IST  |  Tehran
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Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the countrys Supreme National Security Council, made the comment at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Israel remotely killed nuclear scientist, says Iranian official

The coffin of slain top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. PIC/AFP

A top Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using "electronic devices" to remotely kill a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s.


Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, made the comment at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, where Iran’s defence minister separately vowed to continue the man’s work "with more speed and more power." Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the last decade, has declined to comment on the attack.


Fakhrizadeh headed Iran’s so-called AMAD program, which Israel and the West have alleged was a military operation looking at the feasibility of building a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy Agency says that "structured program" ended in 2003. US intelligence agencies concurred with that assessment in a 2007 report.


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