A funeral worthy of one of the highest authorities in the country. On Monday, November 30, the body of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, suspected of having been the architect of an Iranian nuclear program with a possible military dimension, assassinated on Friday near Tehran, was buried in the Emamzadeh Saleh, a sanctuary where two others lie. nuclear scientists murdered in 2010 and 2011, as well as “martyrs” of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).
The physicist, who lived under police escort and traveled in an armored car, was buried under a large poster bearing the effigy of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the former head of the Al-Quds force (the branch of the guards of the revolution in charge of foreign operations), General Ghassem Soleimani, assassinated in Iraq in January 2020 by an American drone.
A last farewell had been paid early in the morning to the defense ministry in Tehran. On Saturday and Sunday, his remains, covered with an Iranian flag, were honored in the holy cities of Mashhad and Qom, then at the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, in Tehran. During the funeral, Defense Minister Amir Hatami maintained that the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh “Would not go unanswered”. He also announced the doubling of the budget of the organization Sépand, in charge of defense research and innovation, of which Mr. Fakhrizadeh was a vice-president.
Theft of archives
With this scientist, it is a sum of accumulated knowledge that would have targeted Israel, designated as guilty by Tehran. Involved from the end of the 1980s in nuclear research, this physicist was not “the father” of a program with a possible military dimension, according to the cautious name of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose Tehran has always denied the existence. But Mr. Fakhrizadeh had, early on, contributed to the resumption of this work, launched by the Shah’s regime before being interrupted by the revolution of 1979, and that experts suspect to have been revived between 1982 and 1984.
Engaged against the invasion of Iran by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (1980-1988), Mr. Fakhrizadeh is said to have fought alongside Fereydoun Abbassi Davani, the former head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, him – even targeted by an assassination attempt in 2010. Mr. Abbassi Davani praised the memory of“A competent manager and a prestigious scientist [qui] can be elevated to the same rank as the martyr Soleimani in the field of science and technology ”.
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