{"id":6653,"date":"2020-11-27T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:58:14","slug":"top-iranian-nuclear-scientist-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/top-iranian-nuclear-scientist-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Father of Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program assassinated near Tehran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Iranian nuclear scientist described as the father of Iran\u2019s nuclear program has been killed in the street in a town near Tehran. Local authorities have confirmed Fakhrizadeh\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Mohsen Fakhrizadhe, the architect behind the Islamic Republic\u2019s military nuclear program, was the head of the Amad project in the Iranian ministry of defense, which focused on developing a nuclear bomb until 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran blames Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s foreign minister alleged the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh bore \u201cserious indications\u201d of an Israeli role, but did not elaborate. Israel, long suspected of killing several Iranian nuclear scientists a decade ago, declined to immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once told the public to \u201cremember that name\u201d when talking about Fakhrizadeh.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed Israel for the assassination. \u201cTerrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice\u2014with serious indications of Israeli role\u2014shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,\u201d Zarif said on Twitter as called on the international community to condemn the assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Hossein Dehghan, an adviser to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, also blamed Israel and issued a warning. \u201cIn the last days of their gambling ally\u2019s political life, the Zionists seek to intensify and increase pressure on Iran to wage a full-blown war,\u201d Dehghan wrote, appearing to refer to Trump\u2019s last days in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father of Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program assassinated near Tehran An Iranian nuclear scientist described as the father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[30,26,100,108],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-killings","tag-nuclear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/iran-nuclear.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}