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February 11, 2021

How Israel Killed Iran’s Chief Nuclear Scientist, and Made the World a Safer Place

With a one-ton, self-destructing, remote-control gun.

On November 27, 2020, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist who had for years overseen the Islamic Republic’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons, was assassinated while being driven through downtown Tehran. Based on interviews with unnamed sources, Jake Wallis Simons confirms what has long been assumed: that the Mossad carried out the assassination. Simons also sheds light on much that has so far been unknown, including the method by which it was done:

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