Spokesman Rejects NYT Report on Assassination

Date: 19 September 2021 - 22:35

News ID: ۹۴۵۷۹

TEHRAN -- Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh on Sunday dismissed a New York Times report about the manner of the November assassination of Iran’s leading nuclear scientist.
The nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated near Tehran on November 26, with the Times claiming that it had been carried out by the occupying regime of Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
The report attributed Hollywood-style trappings to the terrorist act, claiming that a modified Belgian-made FN MAG machine gun attached to a robot and powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) had been used in the assassination.
Khatibzadeh rejected the report, saying Iranian intelligence has all the details of the incident including all the people involved.
During the past decade, the occupying regime of Israel has been implicated in the assassination of at least five Iranian nuclear scientists.
Following Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, Iranian officials said that the Zionist regime had acted with U.S. intelligence and carried out the targeted killing of the prominent nuclear scientist.