The sons of slain Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh said their father was shot four or five times during his liquidation, in an interview broadcast by Iranian state media on Friday.
Fakhrizadeh, the scientist said by Israel and the US to head Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program, was killed in a military-style ambush last week on the outskirts of Tehran. The attack reportedly saw a truck bomb explode and button men open fire on Fakhrizadeh’s vehicle.
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In the interview broadcast by Iran’s IRIB news, Fakhrizadeh’s two sons said the liquidation "was really like a war," according to a translation by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster. The sons were apparently not with Fakhrizadeh during the liquidation, although some early reports said members of his family were traveling with him.
The sons said Fakhrizadeh’s wife, apparently their mother, was sitting next to him when he was shot, but was not hit by bullets herself. An earlier New York Times
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report said Fakhrizadeh’s wife had received shrapnel wounds during the attack.
"My father was hit four, five times by gunfire," one of Fakhrizadeh’s sons said.
The sons, who were not identified by first name in the Kan report, said Fakhrizaden had been warned by his security team against traveling on the day of the liquidation, but that he had gone out anyway for a meeting.
Their account of a shootout appeared to contradict claims by Iranian officials that Fakhrizadeh was killed by an Israeli-produced weapon controlled remotely by satellite. Critics saw the claims as a way for the regime to evade responsibility for not preventing the liquidation and not capturing the assassins.