Israeli secret agents spent months smuggling a high-tech machine gun into Iran in tiny pieces to kill the regime’s top nuclear scientist, it was revealed last night.
The remote-controlled weapon fired 13 high-accuracy rounds into Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 62, known as the ‘father’ of Iran’s illegal atomic programme, as he was driven from the capital Tehran to his country residence last year.
The gun was so accurate that the scientist’s wife who was sitting just inches from him emerged entirely unscathed from the attack.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran in November was killed by a one-ton gun smuggled into Iran in pieces by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, according to a report by The Jewish Chronicle.https://t.co/KgO9AGs5d6
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The execution on November 27 followed an eight-month surveillance operation by Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel.
Israeli spies slipped into Iran to painstakingly build the machine gun piece by piece.
It was then was hidden inside a Nissan pick-up truck – alongside a one-ton bomb primed to explode just seconds after firing the fatal shots.
Jacob Nagel, one of Israel’s most senior defence officials, said: ‘Mossad had documents proving Fakhrizadeh had worked on several nuclear warheads, each one able to cause five Hiroshimas. He was serious.’
Israel declined to comment in November and on Wednesday night an Israeli government spokesman responded to the latest report by saying: ‘We never comment on such matters. There has been no change in our position.’
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Fakhrizadeh, 59, was long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme.
He had been described by Western and Israeli intelligence services for years as the mysterious leader of a covert atomic bomb programme halted in 2003, which Israel and the United States accuse Tehran of trying to restore. Iran has long denied seeking to weaponise nuclear energy.
According to the Jewish Chronicle’s report, Iran has ‘secretly assessed that it will take six years’ before a replacement for him is ‘fully operational’ and that his death had ‘extended the period of time it would take Iran to achieve a bomb from about three-and-a-half months to two years.’
This article has been adapted from its original source.
