{"id":39203,"date":"2020-11-30T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=39203"},"modified":"2020-11-30T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:25:46","slug":"iran-nuclear-scientist-was-shot-with-mounted-remote-controlled-machine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=39203","title":{"rendered":"Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Shot With Mounted Remote-Controlled Machine Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media has issued for the first time the stunning details of last Friday&#8217;s assassination of top nuclear scientist\u00a0Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, Iranian state media is\u00a0claiming that a machine gun recovered from the site was made in Israel.<strong>\u00a0&#8220;The remains of the weapon used in the Friday assassination of senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh show that it was made in Israel, an informed source has told Press TV,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/11\/30\/639649\/Iran-Israel-assassination-nuclear-scientist-weapon\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the state-run English language news site.<\/p>\n<p>The killing was done\u00a0<strong>&#8220;entirely remotely&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>with no assassins on the ground and no apparent drone activity, according to Iranian officials. But how?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=xXymkB6v\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=xXymkB6v\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=ikpAp5BB 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=ikpAp5BB 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=ikpAp5BB 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=ikpAp5BB 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=ikpAp5BB 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg?itok=xXymkB6v 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/ambushscene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"61a7a6b3-70fc-4e81-8477-387b3eb8833f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Scene of the assassination, via AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The source made the revelation on Monday, saying the weapon collected from the site of the terrorist act\u00a0<strong>bears the logo and specifications of the Israeli military industry<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>PressTV<\/em>\u00a0continued.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran officials said they will soon publicize all available evidence showing who was behind the hit, which occurred in a small city east of the capital and included a hail of gunfire and detonation of a vehicle which took out the scientist&#8217;s convoy and body guards. Officials have further vowed &#8220;hard revenge&#8221; for the killing which they had in the hours after blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Initially international reports strongly suggested a multiple-man hit team forced Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s vehicle to stop before opening fire. However, Iranian state media just dropped details suggesting\u00a0<strong>sophisticated remote-controlled machine guns were used<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u00a0Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council,\u00a0<strong>confirmed that it is Iranian investigators&#8217; belief that Israel used &#8220;electronic devices&#8221; to take out Fakhrizadeh<\/strong>, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/international-news-israel-iran-coronavirus-pandemic-tehran-88c2173048f77695af864d2055af54c6\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1333080696282288128&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Firan-nuclear-scientist-shot-mounted-remote-controlled-machine-gun&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1333080696282288128\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>The following is a translation and paraphrase of key sections of a new Iranian state-run\u00a0<em>Fars news<\/em>\u00a0report by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarakRavid\/status\/1333081269840830465\">Axios correspondent Barak Ravid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-nuclear-scientist-shot-mounted-remote-controlled-machine-gun\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-nuclear-scientist-shot-mounted-remote-controlled-machine-gun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}