comprehensive report, on November 30, local time, Iran held a funeral for the assassinated senior nuclear physicist Muhsin Fahrizad in the capital Tehran. Senior Iranian officials stated at the funeral that the assassination was carried out remotely by sophisticated equipment. Iranian media further disclosed details that the assassination lasted only 3 minutes, and the shooting was done by remote-controlled automatic weapons.
The funeral of the nuclear physicist killed in Iran was held in Tehran. The Minister of Defense gave a speech. Video source: China-Singapore Video. During the health quarantine measures adopted during the period, only a few senior military and political leaders attended, without public participation. At the funeral of
, Shamhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, stated that the assassination was carried out remotely through new sophisticated equipment and there was no killer at the scene. He also accused Israel and an anti-Iranian government organization for participating in the assassination. The Iranian semi-official media Fars News Agency quoted official sources as saying that on the day of the assassination, Fahrizad and his wife went out in a bulletproof car on the road in Damavand near the capital Tehran. Afterwards, Fahrizad's vehicle was hit by a bullet. The new video screenshot
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reported that the sound of the bullet hitting the vehicle made Fahrizad mistakenly believe that the vehicle was malfunctioning or was hit by other objects. So Fahrizad got down from the bulletproof car to check the situation. At this moment, a remote-controlled machine gun started shooting from a car parked 150 meters away, hitting Fahrizad and him. Bodyguard. Then the car exploded. The
investigation revealed that the owner of the car had left Iran the day after the assassination, but the report did not mention the whereabouts of the owner of the car.
reported that Iran’s Minister of Defense Khatami said at the funeral of Fahrizad, “We will definitely respond to the assassination of Fahrizad and will impose severe measures on the perpetrators of such crimes. Punishment.” Khatami emphasized that the assassination of Fahrizad will not stop the progress of Iran’s nuclear program, but will speed up the pace.
Currently, many countries have condemned the attack and called on relevant parties to exercise restraint and avoid escalation of the regional situation.
On the other hand, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 30 instructed all its embassies and representative offices to raise the security alert level.