Iran's Assassination Attempt, Response to Fakhrizadeh Killing - Report

On Monday, the JERUSALEM POST said that KAN reported that Iran's attempted assassination of Israeli businessmen in Cyprus is a response to the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's nuclear program chief.

Notably, Fakhrizadeh was a nuclear physicist and scientist. He was regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, according to Wikipedia.

Born in Qom in 1958, Fakhrizadeh joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the Iranian revolution of 1979. He attended Shahid Beheshti University and later received a PhD from the University of Isfahan. Beginning in 1991, he was a physics professor at Imam Hossein University.

Fakhrizadeh led the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research and the Green Salt Project. Due to Fakhrizadeh's affiliation with the Iranian nuclear program, both the United Nations Security Council and the United States ordered his assets frozen in the mid-2000s.

In the early 2010s, he established and led the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, which conducted research on nuclear weapons. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Fakhrizadeh was the head of the AMAD Project. Following his death, the Iranian government said that in 2020, he helped develop COVID-19 testing kits for use during the pandemic.

Due to his connection to Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, the Israeli government with the knowledge and support of the United States government assassinated Professor Fakhrizadeh in a road ambush in Absard on 27 November 2020 using an innovative autonomous satellite-operated gun.

In a June 2021 television interview, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen offered Israel's closest admission yet of its responsibility for the assassination. The Iranian government labelled the killing of the scientist an act of "state terror." The killing raised tensions in the region and the Iranian legislature passed a bill to block inspections of its nuclear program.