¡°Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh,¡± Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a 2018 news conference about Iran¡¯s nuclear program. At the time, the head of the Islamic Republic¡¯s nuclear-weapons program was unknown even to most Iranians. With his assassination outside Tehran on Friday, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has become a household name.
The details of the killing are as yet fuzzy. State TV said that the scientist¡¯s car was attacked by ¡°armed terrorist elements,¡± and that he was taken to a hospital, where doctors couldn¡¯t revive him. Some reports suggested the car had first been struck by a vehicle-borne IED, and thereafter shot up by armed gunmen.
Inevitably, the regime is blaming Israel. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed there were ¡°serious indications of Israeli role.¡±
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