[agere_contra]

Check out the very tight grouping of the bullet-holes in the windshield. The car was almost untouched, with pinpoint damage to the driver’s side.

Thomas Wictor’s theory is that Fakhrizadeh was extracted, not executed. The Iranians staged his funeral to save face.

[piasa]

That sounds more likely- if the objective had just been to kill him it would not have been as complicated.

[ptsal]

Notice the discretely placed fabric in the coffin and none of the women are flailing their arms.

Old Bagdad Bob would have had a more dramatic exit scene.

[Lions Gate]

I think Thomas Wictor is right that this was a defection and not an assassination.

[RedMominBlueState]

Watched Thomas Wictor discuss this. His theory sounds right to me.