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1 \ Amazing new details of the Fakhrizadeh assassination emerge in the Iranian press: IRGC affiliated Fars news reports the assassination was done using an automatic machine gun operated with a remote control and not with gunmen who were on the ground
2 \ According to the report Fakhrizadeh and his wife were on their way to spend the weekend at their house in a Tehran suburb. There were three security cars with them and at a certain point the leading car left the motorcade to do a preliminary security check of the house
3 \ Right after the car at the front of the motorcade left shots were fired on Fakhrizadeh’s car and it stopped. Fakhrizadeh stepped out of the car thinking his car hit an object on the road or there was a problem with the engine
4 \ At that point shots were fired again from a Nisan pickup truck which stopped 150 meters from Fakhrizadeh’s car. The shots were fired from an automatic machine gun which was mounted on the pickup truck and operated by remote control.
5 \ Fakhrizadeh was hit by three bullets – one hit him in the spine. Seconds later the Nisan pickup truck exploded in what looks like a self destruct mechanism. According to Fars news Iranian security forces identified the owner of the pickup truck who left Iran on October 29th
6 \ Fars reported the assassination operation lasted only three minutes and was all done by remote control with no gunmen on the ground. END
Thomas Wictor has an explanation up on Utube where he as battlefield assessment analyist . I dont know how to drop a link...it’s entitled “what I once did a lifetime ago” Wictor insists from the pictures it was a defection or a kidnapping and the saudia arabia...i thot he did a good analysis!
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Well, none of that makes any sense. Sounds like their media is as bad as our media. Certainly interesting given Wictor’s analysis and the fact that the car didn’t have machine gun damage.
Very interesting report. It doesn’t square too well with the purported aftermath photos from the scene.
If those photos are real, of course. Wictor has the photos and a spiel in which he thinks the guy defected, it was all an act.