Iran’s chief nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by a team of Israeli spies who, according to a new report, used a 1-ton, remote-controlled machine gun smuggled into the country in pieces.
The people of more than 20 Mossad agents, some of whom were Iranian citizens, spent eight months gathering surveillance and planning the hit before the weapon pumped 13 bullets into Fakhrizadeh on November 27 as it was driven from Tehran to its residence. , reports the London Jewish Chronicle. .
Mossad’s national intelligence agency is Israel’s dreaded counterpart to the CIA.
The gun was so accurate that neither the 59-year-old’s wife nor any of his 12 bodyguards were injured during the attack in Absard, according to the outlet, which reported that the weapon was fired at a distance from a Nissan pickup truck. .
According to the Chronicle, the heavy gun also contained a bomb that destroyed the evidence after the strike, which reported that the assassination was carried out only by Israel, with the involvement of the US.
Israeli analysts concluded that the death of the so-called ‘father’ of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program extended the period it would take Tehran to reach a bomb of about 3 1/2 months to at least two years, according to the report.
And the Iranian regime has secretly ruled that it will take six years before a replacement for Fakhrizadeh takes full effect, he added.
Sources told the Chronicle that the mission to obliterate the head of nuclear science was successful in part because Iranian security services were too busy watching suspected political dissidents.
A separate report by the outlet traced the origins of the attack to January 21, 2018, when it was said that Mossad agents stole a large amount of Iran’s key secrets by using torches to steal 50,000 pages of documents and 163 CDs from 32 safes. free.
Sources told the Chronicle that Jerusalem was using the intelligence it had gathered to convince Biden’s government, via the International Atomic Energy Agency, that Iran could not be trusted to meet the terms of any nuclear deal.
“We will base these arguments this time on pure intelligence, not on politics. It would be cleaner to do that, ‘an Israeli source told the outlet, adding that the secrets would not be new to the US, but that Israeli officials would offer their own interpretation.
When Israeli analysts saw the material the spies received in 2018, they knew that Fakhrizadeh was destined to ‘go away’ with a Mossad slang.
“It contains original documents containing the concealment of the core program, many of which are in the handwriting of Fakhrizadeh,” a source told the Chroncile.
“Analysts realized that they were looking at his ink, his fingerprints and his print on the paper while he was writing. He was the one behind the deception, “the source continued.
‘Fakhrizadeh was the father of everything we found in the archive. Everything was under his command, from science and the secret fields to staff and expertise. He led an operation to hide it from the world. From then on, it was only a matter of time, “the source added.
According to the report, in March 2020, a team of Israeli spies was sent to Iran, where they met local agents.
“The team has drawn up an extremely detailed plan for minutes,” a source told Chronicle. ‘They breathed with the man for eight months, woke up with him, slept with him, traveled with him. They would have smelled his aftershave every morning if he had used aftershave. ‘
The agents decided to kill Fakhrizadeh on the road east of Tehran from Absard, where he owns a villa.
“They knew his daily route, speed and timing, and they knew exactly what doors they would use to get out,” a source told the store.
On November 27, when Fakhrizadeh traveled with his wife in a black Opel with a convoy of 12 bodyguards, a team of Mossad agents watched at the right moment, waiting to unleash the deadly volley, according to the report. .
As the vehicle passed a designated spot, they pressed a distance button that fired 13 laps that hit Fakhrizadeh while his wife, who was sitting 10 centimeters away, was unharmed.
Iranian officials claimed that Fakhrizadeh’s security chief was hit by four bullets as he threw himself over the scientist, but sources close to the operation told the outpost that no one else was killed or injured in the attack.
“There were different ways of working, but these were the most accurate,” a source told the Chronicle.
‘It was the most elegant way to make sure the target was hit, and only he. The aim was to prevent anyone else from being harmed, “the source said, claiming that armed men had entered illegally to complete the scientist.
When the Israeli team escaped, the weapon blew itself up.
‘Thank God we took out all our people and they did not catch anyone. They did not even come close, “said a source familiar with the operation to the sales area. “Their safety was not bad at all, but the Mossad was much better. This was an important thing that happened – a dramatic operation. ”