{"id":6007,"date":"2021-02-10T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:01:27","slug":"iran-says-armed-forces-member-involved-in-nuclear-scientists-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-world-news\/iran-says-armed-forces-member-involved-in-nuclear-scientists-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says armed forces member involved in nuclear scientist\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran &#8211; A member of the armed forces is suspected of involvement in last November\u2019s assassination near Tehran of Iran\u2019s\u00a0top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the country\u2019s intelligence minister said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe person who carried out the first preparations for the assassination was a member of the armed forces \u201d Mahmoud Alavi said in an interview with state television, without elaborating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was not possible for the intelligence ministry \u201cto keep watch over the armed forces\u201d. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was travelling on a highway outside the capital accompanied by a security detail on November 27 when he came under machine-gun fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Iranian authorities, Fakhrizadeh was a deputy defence minister and carried out work on \u201cnuclear defence\u201d. Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards said a satellite-controlled gun with \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d was used in the attack, which Tehran blamed on its arch foe Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jewish state did not react to the accusation but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2018 that Fakhrizadeh headed a secret nuclear arms programme, whose existence Iran has repeatedly denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran &#8211; A member of the armed forces is suspected of involvement in last November\u2019s assassination near Tehran of Iran\u2019s\u00a0top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the country\u2019s intelligence minister said Monday. \u201cThe person who carried out the first preparations for the assassination was a member of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4335,4336,1350,4337],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-world-news","tag-armed-forces","tag-involved","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-scientists-murder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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