Iran has blamed Israel for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was seen by Western intelligence services as the mastermind of a covert Iranian programme to develop nuclear weapons capability. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the killing, but in the past has acknowledged pursuing covert, intelligence-gathering operations against the nuclear programme of its arch-enemy Iran. Shortly after Fakhrizadeh was killed, witnesses told state television that a truck had exploded before a group of gunmen opened fire on his car. “Some 13 shots were fired at martyr Fakhrizadeh with a machine gun controlled by satellite...During the operation artificial intelligence and face recognition was used,” Fadavi said. The commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January.

Source: bd News24 December 07, 2020 10:41 UTC