Secretary of the Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said they failed to thwart the attack due to the use of innovative methods.
Iran on Monday held the funeral ceremony for its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday, reported BBC. Iran’s defence ministry on Friday said that armed terrorists targeted a vehicle carrying Fakhrizadeh. The terrorists reportedly “blew up another car” before firing on a vehicle carrying him and his bodyguards in the ambush. Iran blames Israel for the attack, with the country’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Friday saying there were “serious indications of Israeli role”. According to Iranian news organisations, Israel killed the nuclear scientist with the use of “remote-controlled” weaponry. Fars news agency, which is associated with the Revolutionary Guards, reported that Fakhrizadeh was killed by a “remote-controlled machine gun”. Iran’s English language Press TV reported, citing an unidentified source, that the weapon contained the “logo and specifications of the Israeli military industry”. Arabic language channel Al-Alam claimed that the weapons were “controlled by satellite”, a claim similar to Fars news agency.
