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As Iran puts executed nuclear chief’s body on display, how he was taken out: Power to the entire region was cut as gun and bomb attack blasted convoy before he was dragged from car and finished off… then the 12 assassins melted away
- Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins in the city of Absard, near Tehran
- The killers – which included a pair of snipers – formed 62-person group of plotters, reports have revealed
- Detail have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who obtained leaked information
Harriet Alexander and Jemma Carr – Daily Mail.com Nov 29, 2020
Remarkable detail of the elaborate plot to assassinate ‘prominent and distinguished’ Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been leaked – as the rogue nation claim Israel is behind the hit.
Fakhrizadeh – dubbed the ‘father’ of Iran’s bomb programme – was shot dead in his car by 12 highly-trained assassins following an explosion in the city of Absard, 50 miles east of Tehran.
Scene of the attack after the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Click to enlarge
The killers – which included a pair of snipers – formed part of a 62-person group of plotters. The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.
Extraordinary detail about Fakhrizadeh’s final moments have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who claims he received leaked information from the country’s authorities.
Fakhrizadeh’s death sent tensions in the regions skyrocketing as Iran has repeatedly blamed Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad for the the assassination – with several prominent figures vowing revenge.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – who has the final say on all matters of state – yesterday said Iran’s first priority after the killing was the ‘definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.’ He did not elaborate.
And, in an intervention that risks inflaming conflict even further, a former head of the US’s Central Intelligence Agency labelled the assassination a ‘criminal’ act and branded it ‘highly reckless’.
John Brennan – who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama – said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Fakhrizadeh but said it ‘risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict’.
One American official and two other intelligence officials also told the New York Times that Israel was behind the attack.
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Ahwaze said the attack was planned for a roundabout in Absard, at the foot of a tree-lined boulevard which enters the city.
The team had been watching Fakhrizadeh, and knew that he was going to be driving from Tehran to Absard on Friday.
The mountain retreat of 10,000 people is where many well-off Tehranis have second homes, and Fakhrizadeh, 59, had a villa there.
The 12 assassins – described as being highly-trained and assisted by ‘security and intelligence services abroad’ – were deployed to Absard while the remaining 50 people in the 62-person strong group helped with logistical support. He did not specify whether they were in Iran, or abroad.
A Hyundai Santa Fe with four passengers, four motorcyles and two snipers were waiting for Fakhrizadeh at the scene of the ambush – along with a booby-trapped Nissan pickup.
Half an hour before Fakhrizadeh’s convoy of three bulletproof cars arrived, the electricity was cut off to the area, Ahwaze reported. The team were in place when the first car passed the roundabout.
As the third car passed, the Nissan exploded, damaging electricity poles and transmitters, according to a state TV report from the area on Friday night.
The force of the explosion from the bomb hurled debris at least 300 meters, state television claimed.
The second car, containing Fakhrizadeh, was then shot at by the 12 assassins, including two snipers.
The gunmen with the hit squad opened fire on the cars, and an intense gunfight ensued, according to Sepah Cybery, a social media channel affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Ahwaze tweeted: ‘According to Iranian leaks, the leader of the assassination team took Fakhrizadeh out of his car and shot him and made sure he was killed.’
The hit squad then vanished, having sustained no losses to their team, Ahwaze reported.
Residents told state television that they heard the sound of a big explosion followed by intense machine gun fire as Fakhrizadeh’s bodyguards fought back.
They knew the man they were protecting had for years been Mossad’s number one target.
A police helicopter landed in the area to transport Fakhrizadeh and others to the hospital, according to a video posted by a resident who said ‘several people are dead.’
When members of Fakhrizadeh’s security detail arrived in hospital, they were surprised to find that there was no electricity, after the power had been cut. They are then transported to Tehran.
At 10.28am EST (7.30pm local time) on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, said that ‘an eminent Iranian scientist’ had been killed, with the suspected aid of Israel.
Fakhrizadeh’s body lay in a flag-draped, open coffin at a mosque on Saturday in central Tehran, where Iran’s chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi, prayed over his body in a public spectacle of mourning.
In 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu cited Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi, saying “remember that name”. Click to enlarge
His death sent tensions in the region skyrocketing as Iran accused Israel of trying to provoke a war by killing the scientist – who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once called out in a news conference saying: ‘Remember that name’.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called Fakhrizadeh ‘the country’s prominent and distinguished nuclear and defensive scientist.’
Khamenei – who has the final say on all matters of state – said Iran’s first priority after the killing was the ‘definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.’ He did not elaborate.
And, in an intervention that risks inflaming conflict even further, a former head of the US’s Central Intelligence Agency labelled the assassination a ‘criminal’ act and branded it ‘highly reckless’.
John Brennan – who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under the administration of president Barack Obama – said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Fakhrizadeh but labeled it a ‘criminal’ act.
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council on Friday, Iranian envoy, Majid Takht Ravanchi wrote: ‘Warning against any adventuristic measures by the United States and Israel against my country, particularly during the remaining period of the current administration of the United States in office, the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its rights to take all necessary measures to defend its people and secure its interests.’
The proxy war between Israel and Iran has predominately remained in the realm of verbal hostility and threats.
Israel is suspicious of Iran’s nuclear capabilities – and seeks to reduce the impact of its allies and proxies.
The country has been accused of using covert ‘wet work’ tactics in its mission against Iran – including assassinations.
Friday’s attack comes just days before the 10-year anniversary of the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari.
Tehran blamed that attack on Israel too as it came at the height of Western fears over Iran’s nuclear program.
Hossein Dehghan – who is a presidential candidate in Iran’s 2021 election as well as an adviser to its supreme leader Ali Khamenei – echoed the claim that Israel was behind the attack.
‘In the last days of their gambling ally’s political life, the Zionists seek to intensify and increase pressure on Iran to wage a full-blown war,’ Mr Dehghan wrote, appearing to refer to US President Donald Trump’s last days in office.
It comes amid fears that the Trump administration could order a strike on Iran in the weeks before the president relinquishes power to President-Elect Joe Biden.
Dehghan added: ‘We will descend like lightning on the killers of this oppressed martyr and we will make them regret their actions.’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also said Israel was to blame for the ambush in a televised speech on Saturday, and said Iran would retaliate for the killing of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi at ‘the proper time’.
Rouhani said: ‘Our people are wiser than to fall in the trap of the Zionist regime (Israel) … Iran will surely respond to the martyrdom of our scientist at the proper time.’
Rouhani said that Fakhrizadeh’s death would not stop its nuclear program, something Supreme Leader Khamenei said as well.
Tehran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had suggested Israel was behind the attack, in which he said ‘Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist’.
Zarif wrote on Twitter: ‘This cowardice – with serious indications of Israeli role – shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators.
Former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan called the assassination of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi ‘criminal’ and ‘reckless’
‘Iran calls on the international community – and especially the EU – to end their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror.’
Israel declined to immediately comment on the killing of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi.
Donald Trump retweeted the New York Times article claiming one American official and two other intelligence officials confirmed that Israel was behind the attack.
He also retweeted Israeli journalist Yossi Melman who called the killing ‘a major psychological and professional blow for Iran’.
‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated in Damavand, east of Tehran according to reports in Iran. He was head of Iran’s secret military program and wanted for many years by Mossad. His death is a major psychological and professional blow for Iran,’ Melman had tweeted.
Brennan also took to Twitter, claiming that while he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, it was ‘a criminal act’.
‘This was a criminal act and highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict,’ he tweeted.
‘I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the murder of Fakhrizadeh.
‘Such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law & encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.’
Brennan noted that Fakhrizadeh was not a designated terrorist nor a member of Al Qaeda or the Islamic State group, designated terror groups which would be legal targets.
A strong critic of President Donald Trump, Brennan urged Tehran to ‘resist the urge’ to retaliate and ‘wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage,’ a reference to November 3 election winner Joe Biden, who will replace Trump on January 20.
Brennan was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017, under the administration of president Barack Obama and then-vice president Biden.
The jews did this in lebanon syria and iraq first
they are desperate to a country to retaliate so the gullible americans will come in and fight for them
America should bomb isreal and d it now
Nov 27 News Flash: USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier and escorts returning to Persian Gulf
Nov 28 News Flash: Iranian Nuclear Scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is assassinated
Looks like the bankster jews told their Trump puppets to send the carrier force to the Persian Gulf to defend Israel against any retaliation from Iran for planned assassination of Fakhrizadeh.
Most people in the UK support Iran against this aggression
we have so many jews here if a few were assassinated it would be a good thing for us and would even up the score
“Rogue nation” The toxic Daily Fail. Hitchens writes for this rag.lol
The ZUS is also responsible for this assassination, if the Israelies did not have the backing of the ZUS it would not be able to do these crimes and not only this one but others around the world.
Well said Carl Jones
Aren’t these serial assassinations of Iranian scientists actually straight out of the Talmud?.
Where it says something like “kill the best of the goyim”.
The question is….WHY? are Iranian scientists still vulnerable to these attacks…..after all they have had plenty of warning thanks to previous murders of leading scientists??!.
Another question is HOW did these attackers evade capture post attack…
Iranians are smart people SURELY they would have corrected previous security lapses??.
Always keep in mind France gave refuge to the first Ayatollah….why?.
HOW was Iraq maneuvered into war with Iran…..which caused enormous damage to both countries…..sort of a replay of Europes WW1.
One thing is for sure..Jews Inc are working flat out to start a war with Iran…..and the Jews will use the West to fight it.
WHY are elite Jews in the west never subject to similar attacks as happened to the Iranian scientists.Jews certainly understand “eye for an eye” type justice.
“…before he was dragged from car and finished off…” : ) That’s more like how it happens in Hollywood movies!
This article is somewhat trying to glorify and over-complicate how this assassination was done. You should understand that the main part of every assassination is the intelligence and accurate information obtained through spies, traitors and fifth column elements. The execution is secondary.
“Detail have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who obtained leaked information.”
Who is this obscured journalist “Mohamad Ahwaze” that is referenced? A twitter link or some social media page would help.
Important: >>> There are no bullet holes on the sides of the car <<<
Here is how it actually happened:
1- At 14:20, Fakhrizade who was driving his own bulletproof car enters the Absard boulevard.
2- A remote controlled accurate machine gun hidden between lumbers on a Nissan pickup in the front starts shooting.
3- Sound of bullets hitting the car (probably first few shots hit under the bonnet) is heard by Fakhrizade and assuming something has happened to the car he gets out of the car.
4- Fakhrizade is hit by two bullets on the side and one bullet in the back, his main bodyguard gets to him and cover him and is hit by a few bullets too.
5- Security team quickly enters the scene and with the assumption that they are being hit from the fields on the sides of the street, they start shooting in both directions and spread out.
6- Moments later the Nissan pickup explodes damaging the nearby electricity post, this cuts the electricity of the area.
7- There was not a single terrorist in the area. The security team spreads out and what people see is just them moving and taking positions and shooting.
Bullet holes in the back of the car are just exit holes. Shots are fired ONLY from the front. There are no bullet holes on the sides. Only Fakhrizade and his main bodyguard are killed.
When the Nissan pickup exploded the assassination was already done. The remains of the remote controlled machine gun is said to show that it was made in Israel. I'm waiting for more information regarding it and the types of bullets used, after all they have easily penetrated the glass, so how "bulletproof" Fakhrizad's car has been is questionable!
“Remarkable detail of the elaborate plot to assassinate ‘prominent and distinguished’ Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been leaked – as the rogue nation claim Israel is behind the hit.”
Remarkable details indeed! …Rogue “nation” !? Only Israel and US are rouge countries.
Updating my previous post based on what Fakhrizade’s wife said who was on the scene too.
They hear a rattling and shaking sound as the first bullets hit the car’s fan and radiator, then bullets hit the windshield but Fakhrizade docks, he then gets out of the car to move back towards the security teams’ car behind as bullets are being fired from front. He is shot once on the shoulder, his bodyguard gets to him and covers him and is shot four times, two of the bullets go through him and hit Fakrizade. As his bodyguard falls, he is shot again. Then the Nissan pick up with lumbers explodes. Face of Fakhrizade’s wife is injured with wooden debris as a result of the explosion. And this is all there is to it.
@ مقداد وفائی. Scientific evidence is proving the whole global cv propaganda media brainwashing is a psy-op to benefit those SAME political elites that have been behind all attempts to destabilise the Islamic Republic over the last 40 years, since they have never really forgiven Iran for kicking out their man in Tehran in Feb 1979.
So I have a problem in understanding why the Islamic Republic seems to be taking on board the need for a vaccine and what looks like mandatory face masks in public for what has been proven to be no more dangerous than the common flu.
The Shias have a Caliph that challenges the Temporal power aka Worldgovernment of Rome. Those who challenge this will be destroyed.
There are reports that over Saturday night/Sunday morning a Republican Guard commander was killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a drone as he crossed from Iraq into Syria. Israel is really pushing for a war it wants the US to fight. Iran should make sure it is the last war Israel starts anywhere.
To answer the above question, I have to cover multiple subjects and some backgrounds:
In traditional Iranian medicine which is based on the 4 natures of the body, common Flu or Cold has never been treated as a disease, in fact it is considered to be body’s defense mechanism. We even have many hadith (narrations from Shiite imams) that one should not treat the common flu; in one describing the nose as a waste disposal organ for the brain! Yet many even today ONLY believe it is an organ to smell, filter and warm-up air into lungs! Modern medicine being symptom-based, only focus on the signs and so the treatments most of the time miss the real causes (like seeing smoke in the room and instead of putting out the fire, opening the window) If you stop a runny nose, you stop exit of the unwanted waste material that are accumulated in the brain, sinusitis, and in canals behind the nose and forehead. After a decade these accumulated material will harden in layers and could form onion-like tumors in the brain. Cold/Flu is a seasonal body response and should only be treated if it lasts for more than a week. With current scientific advances we can be sure that those waste materials are indeed genetic wastes or what is nowadays named exosome. From here we should focus on the theory of virus… honestly even in my childhood I always had this feeling that somehow virus can’t be God’s creation for some logical reasons… how can something so evil be created almost at the same time as first life was created!? Just look up theories on the origin of virus. Furthermore another fascinating subject that I researched is Bacteria and Bacteriophage virus that looks like a robotic machine!… it is said that the biggest and deadliest and longest battle fought on earth has been between Bacteria and its Phage nemesis and they both evolve and continue to kill each other. In fact Gates Foundation is looking into using viruses to cure bacterial infections, that literally means to inject a person with modified Phage viruses to kill the over-populated bacteria in a patient, they also point out to the fact that detergents and antibacterial solutions have only strengthened and created the super-bug! Although true, no one can trust them. Now Phage is amazing… but when you look at it from outside the box, both Phage and Bacteria are of the same nature and are twins. They say phage infects a bacteria but it latches to the receptors on the bacteria so it has the key to enter and perhaps we can view it as a message sent from another bacteria rather than “invading” or “infecting”, then in some cases phage’s genetic information remains inside the bacteria and does not immediately do anything, it is observed that at times billions of bacteria are infected with phage but don’t reproduce the virus and don’t die… HOWEVER within certain environmental changes all suddenly Lyse (a technical term for bacteria committing suicide en masse!), massive exponential growth rates and sudden lysing potential should be seen as a miracle and a sophisticated natural system to control balance. In a way, a phage virus is a bacteria in different form. It has the genetic information for the new bacteria to adapt. If you look at it in this way, then you’d see no contradiction within nature and God’s creation. It is clear that Vaccines can be used by evil Satanic globalists to genetically modify a human.
In Iran there are different types of medical specialists and experts:
1- Traditional practitioners (almost all distrust Zionists, WHO and modern medicine)
Hakim Tabrizian famously burned a copy of Harisson’s Internal Medicine and said the age of chemical medicine has come to an end! His symbolic move caused massive attacks on him, they ridiculed him and called him a stone-age man.
2- Modern practitioners who are totally into the WHO narrative
3- Modern practitioners who are suspicious of WHO and are worried of biological terrorism
So as you see it is complicated. The overall atmosphere and media power is in favor of modern medicine however most people distrust doctors as thieves and killers!! Much of the advances in Medical sciences are of engineering nature anyway!
Then we have the very important issue of Djinns that many just can’t accept. Many mental and even physical illnesses are the work of Djinns. anyways…
In order to avoid branding Shia Iranians as the cause of spread of the virus we had to comply otherwise the tyranny of the “experts” would unleash attacks and this would again create new frictions between non-observing Iranians who just don’t care for religion and religious Iranians.
Generally speaking Religious Shiite Iranians tend to be much more disciplined and can adapt and show great flexibility in times of need despite the common belief that religious people are rigid, fixed and dogmatic, so if it is masks now, so be it. The non-religious gather in concerts, parties and travel a lot so they take the blame too. It is important to understand that within Iran and even within the religious community there are various groups with different interests, understandings and political views. So Iran’s Supreme Leader plays by logic, he says he is not a medical expert so has to listen to the “trusted” experts in the field while at the same time expressing his total distrust for anything that comes from outside, he has however defended the position of traditional practitioners to create some balance. This is a huge multi-dimensional subject that can’t be properly addressed in just one comment.
The assassinated scientist was not only a Nuclear scientists he was active in multiple projects, he was managing SEPANDA which is an equivalent of DARPA in US. They focus on new emerging tech with focus on but not limited to military applications and then localize it. Fakhrizad was also into laser weaponry (to blind satellites, Iran already has them) too, he was also active in developing a vaccine for the Covid-19. Now whatever this vaccine is, we can be sure that it would be better for Iranians to take instead of the vaccines that come from abroad.
So in conclusion: Iran is not a monolithic country with one voice, seriously managing a country like Iran is a really tough job. Think about it, all those borders with weak neighboring countries hosting US bases, under “maximum pressure” for decades, various ethnic fault lines, enemy money and media, internal fifth column and frictions, imposed wars, etc… not only has Iran survived it has thrived. Iran’s Khamenai is a wise, courageous and clever leader. To get a better picture of the situation please read my other comment posted recently under an article about the prospect of war with Iran, there I explained some of the contradictions in Iran’s behavior.
I hope this clarifies a bit.
Yes, I can agree with you the Supreme Leader has a mammoth task of utilising all the varying ideologies in order to strike a careful balance when it comes to policy making and for keeping the peace in general, both domestically and globally. His wise and well-thought-out decisions have protected your country over 4 decades and he is well respected both domestically and internationally.
The problem the world now faces is a lying, compromised, global, mainstream media and corrupt politicians leading the disinformation campaign (Iran’s enemies being at the forefront of that disinfo campaign) feeding the masses with unscientific data (in other words lies) to counteract factual data, and omission (silence) of that essential data being the most obvious and the most damaging.
So the media in your country has a huge responsibility to impart factual data and the global corona disinformation needs to be at the top of that list. Most editors must (or should) be aware of their personal responsibility to impart the truth and those in your country have a heavier responsibility because they have access to all the authentic hadith and Quran quotes to this effect.
(example – Chap. 16.vs 25. regarding the severe repercussions in the Afterlife for misleading others and who will be called to account for their falsehoods (29;13).
Ayat.Khameni is well respected domestically and internationally and I am confident his wise and well-thought-out decisions will continue to protect your country as they have done over the past 4 decades!
Unfortunately, Iran is extremely slow and vulnerable in media, seriously weak media power with lack of initiative. Whenever something important happens, the Zionist owned media has the first narrative and the first story which has the most impact, then after a couple of days or even more our story gets out! Very sad indeed. Some of it is due to the internal frictions, for instance Rohani’s government pushed for the news to omit title of “nuclear scientist” for Fakhrizad and use scientist instead! Didn’t happen though! These guys are pressuring so that IRGC doesn’t retaliate soon, but they won’t succeed, there will be a retaliation for sure and this has seriously setback the prospect of negotiations. Honestly it is a miscalculation on the part of US and Israel that Iran wont retaliate because of Rohani’s desire for negotiations! Almost the entire world is advising “restraint” and “strategic patience” and Rohani’s liberal government too! Retaliation must happen and will soon, otherwise in the final days of Trump there will be more of such attacks.
Media can’t be fixed anytime soon and probably we will have a handicapped media until the end!! In contrast US and Israel now are 90% media power, field realities show that the military edge is on the side of the resistance block.
In Quran Sura 5 Verse 54, the main attribute of the people of the end times that God supports is described clearly explained. The important part is “وَلَا يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَةَ لَآئِمٍۢ” which essentially means: “…and they do not fear the blame of those who blame…” Why is it that such a quality is so key for the end times people!? Only when understanding the absolute Evil Media Power it can make sense.
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Thank you for your insightful comments!