BREAKING NEWS: Iran's top nuclear scientist fatally shot

[SoonerPride]

NYT

By Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman
Nov. 27, 2020, 10:02 a.m. ET


Iran’s top nuclear scientist was shot and killed on Friday as he was traveling in a vehicle in northern Iran, Iranian state media reported.

The scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was considered the driving force behind Iran’s nuclear weapons program before it was quietly disbanded in the early 2000s, according to American intelligence assessments.

Iran’s state television said Mr. Fakhrizadeh had been gravely wounded in the attack and that doctors tried to save him in the hospital but could not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/middleeast/iran-scientists-killed.html?referringSource=articleShare

[Sherman A1]

1. WOW

[Pachamama]

2. Assassination?

Hmmm....

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. My first thought

[Takket]

3. drumpf will soon take credit for that.... even if he had nothing to do with it.

[okaawhatever]

4. Not good. I don't think we did it, but we probably greenlit

The Israelis doing it. Bad all the way around.

[SoonerPride]

6. I assume it was Mossad and greenlit by Pompeo

At that meeting with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

I still fear Trump dragging us into war with Iran prior to Biden taking office.

[crickets]

8. I think you're right, but rather than prelude to war it's likely just a stink bomb

set off on trump's way out. trump can't get his war on, so his administration is making very sure to poison our relations with Iran as much as possible to spite Biden. It's likely intended to be a setback to any attempt to renegotiate the Iran deal. These are petty, evil people.

[okaawhatever]

10. Me too. Especially some kind of hit and run a day or two before leaving office. If

That happens I’ll bet Trump finds someone willing to refinance his $430,000,000 loans. Say someone from Saudi Arabia or Israel.

[NightWatcher]

7. Good thing our president wasn't just asking if he could strike them.

Now he has zero plausible deniability

[roamer65]

9. Mossad.

They are trying to goad Iran into starting a conflict.