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| Iran sentences 3 to death over 2020 killing of nuclear scientist blamed on Israel |
| 2024-11-06 |
| [IsraelTimes] Iran has sentenced three people to death over the 2020 assassination of one of the country’s top nuclear scientists, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the judiciary says. “The judicial processes of these three people were carried out in the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, and they were sentenced to death in the initial stage, and the case is currently in the appeal stage,” judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir tells a Tehran press conference. Fakhrizadeh was killed when his car was ambushed on a highway outside the capital in November 2020, in an attack Iran blamed on Israel. “After some investigations, three people out of eight arrested in West Azerbaijan province, were accused of committing espionage for the occupying regime of Israel,” Jahangir says. Three? Eight?? At one point it was seriously reported that he was taken out by a 62-man hit squad in six vehicles, the squad being equipped with machine guns and a car bomb. The sole eyewitness was quoted as saying, “Sixty-two? Shoooot, there wuz hundreds of ‘em — 413 to be precise, unless I miss my guess, an’ I never miss my guess. And every single one of ‘em wuz blond, blue-eyed, an’ dressed like that Lawrence o’Arabia feller on a bad day. ‘Cept the girlies — they all looked like them 72 virgin hareem dancin’ girls they tell us ’bout every Friday, all doe eyes an’ wearin’ no more than a cuppla bits o’wispy stuff where it warnt needed nohow! Can’t blame that scientist general for stoppin’ his car when he saw all that caperin’ in the road, no indeed!”. He adds that the three are also “accused of transporting equipment into Iran for the assassination of martyr Fakhrizadeh under the guise of smuggling alcoholic beverages.”In December 2022, then judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi said nine people had been charged with the capital offense of “corruption on earth” for their suspected collusion with Israel in the assassination. Fakhrizadeh had been under US sanctions for his role in Iran’s nuclear program when he was killed. Iranian authorities said the attackers used a bomb and a remote-controlled machine gun. Israel has never commented on the killing. In 2018, the Israeli government accused Fakhrizadeh of leading Iran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb, a claim Iran has always vehemently denied. The sentencing of the three comes the day after a Jewish Iranian man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, was executed in Iran after a two-year battle by his family and the local Jewish community to save his life. He was executed over a fatal stabbing he claimed was in self-defense. Related: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh 08/06/2024 Iran's Last Warning: Why Tehran's Retaliation Isn't Impressive Mohsen Fakhrizadeh 01/19/2024 Drone attacked an American base in Iraqi Kurdistan, media reports. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh 08/01/2023 India terror suspects said to have plotted attack on Mumbai Chabad House |
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