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Iran FM: Indications of Israeli role in scientist’s killing
The Associated Press ^ | November 27, 2020 | By JON GAMBRELL

Posted on 11/27/2020 7:54:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran’s foreign minister is alleging the killing of a scientist linked to the country’s disbanded military nuclear program has “serious indications” of an Israeli role.

Mohammad Javad Zarif made the statement Friday on Twitter. Israel has declined to comment, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has named the scientist slain outside of Tehran.

“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice - with serious indications of Israeli role - shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Zarif wrote.

An Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was killed in a targeted attack that saw gunmen use explosives and machine gun fire Friday, state television said.

Israel declined to immediately comment on the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once called out in a news conference saying: “Remember that name.” Israel has long been suspected of carrying out a series of targeted killings of Iranian nuclear scientists nearly a decade ago.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; islam; mideast
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These photos [were] released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was “assassinated” Friday, state television said. (Fars News Agency via AP)

1 posted on 11/27/2020 7:54:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s just getting a few band-aids applied at the local hospital.

Official Iranian Government sources said so.


2 posted on 11/27/2020 7:57:04 AM PST by C210N
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This cowardice - with serious indications of Israeli role - shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Zarif wrote.

—So what is Iran going to do about it? Declare war? Advocate the annihilation of Israel? Finance an endless stream of terror attacks on Jews, focused on women, children and the helpless? Last I checked, they never stopped doing those things.


3 posted on 11/27/2020 7:59:38 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am sure this is all a misunderstanding, Iran announced nobody was killed earlier. This guy was obviously a nobody.


4 posted on 11/27/2020 7:59:43 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Army Air Corps; BenLurkin; MeganC

Ha Ha Haa, Dead Iranian Nuke Scientist goes “SPLAT”


5 posted on 11/27/2020 7:59:56 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pesky jooooos salute


6 posted on 11/27/2020 8:01:02 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘e’s just restin!


7 posted on 11/27/2020 8:02:45 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Biden: Senile, pedophile, grifter, extortionist, thief.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Clearly Covid-19 related


8 posted on 11/27/2020 8:03:15 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pic #1: Nice initial group of 2 before the car veered.


9 posted on 11/27/2020 8:04:27 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Biden: Senile, pedophile, grifter, extortionist, thief.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the guy had worn his mask, this wouldn’t have happened.


10 posted on 11/27/2020 8:07:58 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist?

Is that a problem?


11 posted on 11/27/2020 8:10:14 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

hey man, nice shot


12 posted on 11/27/2020 8:19:43 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ahhh, explains the repositioning of B-52 bombers and other assets - just in case Iran thought about retaliation against Israel or our remaining assets in Iraq and Syria.


13 posted on 11/27/2020 8:22:01 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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to the country’s disbanded military nuclear program

Couldnt wait for the second line to lie


14 posted on 11/27/2020 8:26:15 AM PST by italianquaker
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs

Tis nothing more than a scratch


15 posted on 11/27/2020 8:35:03 AM PST by Steven Tyler (President Elect Steven Tyler)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is my kind of gun control.


16 posted on 11/27/2020 8:40:03 AM PST by nagant
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To: KC_Lion

Grisly.


17 posted on 11/27/2020 8:46:22 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where’s AP’s proof that Iran disbanded its nuke-u-lear program?


18 posted on 11/27/2020 8:52:54 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You knew that the would blame Israel. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were right but we’ll never know for sure.


19 posted on 11/27/2020 8:59:32 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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You knew that the would blame Israel. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were right but we’ll never know for sure.


20 posted on 11/27/2020 8:59:33 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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