{"id":17953,"date":"2020-11-28T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T09:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2020-11-28T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T09:34:22","slug":"scientist-fakhrizadeh-father-of-iranian-nuclear-program-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17953","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Fakhrizadeh &#038; Father of Iranian nuclear Program, assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran,<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, who was long suspected by the West of leading a secret atomic weapons programme, was assassinated near the Iranian capital on Friday, Iranian state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iranian media, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died of injuries in hospital after armed assassins fired on his car.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17954\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Iran-scientist-murdered-Fars-News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Iran-scientist-murdered-Fars-News-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Iran-scientist-murdered-Fars-News-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Iran-scientist-murdered-Fars-News-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Iran-scientist-murdered-Fars-News-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Iran-scientist-murdered-Fars-News.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top Iranian scientist assassinated site screen capture Fars News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the medical team did not succeed in reviving (Fakhrizadeh), and a few minutes ago, this manager and scientist achieved the high status of martyrdom after years of effort and struggle,\u201d Iran\u2019s armed forces said in a statement carried by state media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice\u2014with serious indications of Israeli role\u2014shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators<\/p>\n<p>Iran calls on int&#39;l community\u2014and especially EU\u2014to end their shameful double standards &amp; condemn this act of state terror.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Javad Zarif (@JZarif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JZarif\/status\/1332345633425022976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The semi-official news agency\u00a0Tasnim\u00a0 said earlier that \u201cterrorists blew up another car\u201d before firing on a vehicle carrying Fakhrizadeh and his bodyguards in an ambush outside the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhrizadeh is thought to have headed what the UN nuclear watchdog and US intelligence services believe was a coordinated nuclear weapons programme in Iran, shelved in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He has the rare distinction of being the only Iranian scientist named in the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s 2015 \u201cfinal assessment\u201d of open questions about Iran\u2019s nuclear programme and whether it was aimed at developing a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, who was long suspected by the West of leading a secret atomic weapons programme, was assassinated near the Iranian capital on Friday, Iranian state media reported. According to Iranian media, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died of injuries in hospital after armed assassins fired on his car. \u201cUnfortunately, the medical team did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17957,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}