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Mossad killed Iran's top nuke scientist with remote-operated machine gun
2021-09-19
[Time of Israel] Safe in a command center thousands of miles away, Israeli team reportedly used AI-powered weapon built into abandoned-looking vehicle to take out Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last November.

Top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in November 2020 in a sophisticated hit led by a Mossad team that reportedly deployed a computerized machine gun, required no on-site operatives, took less than a minute, and did not injure anyone else, including the scientist’s wife who was with him at the time.

According to an in-depth New York Times report published on Saturday, the weapon used in the high-profile assassination last year of Fakhrizadeh — regarded by Israel and many Western officials as the "father" of Iran’s nuclear weapons program — was a modified Belgian-made FN MAG machine gun attached to an advanced robotic apparatus and powered with artificial intelligence technology. The whole device weighed about a ton and was smuggled into Iran in small parts ahead of the operation and then reassembled.
Nobody questioned a bunch of men in “Star of David Mechanics, Inc” labelled boiler suits working on a car at the side of the road? How long would such a thing take if they were careful to abide by union labour laws in order to avoid notice?
The Mossad team handled the whole operation from a command center outside the country, according to the report which the publication said was based on interviews with American, Israeli and Iranian officials, "including two intelligence officials familiar with the details of the planning and execution of the operation."
Courtesy of Frank G, the Jerusalem Post confirms the NYT report laid out here, with some additional details. And from Skidmark, the Daily Mail story on the subject, with even more details.
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