The New York Times: A deadly robot used to assassinate the largest Iranian nuclear scientist and American officials who approved the plan

The New York Times revealed new details in the assassination of the prominent Iranian nuclear world, Mohsen Fakhry Zadeh late last year near Tehran, and said that a "fatal robot" was used in the assassination that Iran accused Israel of implementing, noting that officials were responsibleIn the administration of former President Donald Trump, they approved the assassination plan.

On Saturday, the newspaper published a lengthy report on its website based on interviews with American, Israeli and Iranian officials, including two intelligence officials familiar with the details of the planning and implementation of the operation..

Fakhry Zadeh - who is described as the father of the Iranian nuclear program - was assassinated on November 27, 2020 when he was driving his car with his wife, who went to their rural homes in the city of Absrd, which is located within the borders of Tehran Governorate and includes luxury homes for Iranian officials.

The newspaper said that on the day of the assassination, the Iranian nuclear scientist drove his car from his home on the Caspian Sea towards Abser to spend the weekend in it, although the Iranian intelligence warned him of a plan to liquidate him.

Looking at his position, Mohsen Fakhry Zadeh was supposed to move amid security protection, but the New York Times indicated that he ignored the warning, and he preferred to live a normal life.

She explained that Israel was seeking to assassinate him 14 years ago, and in 2009 it stopped at the last minute an operation to liquidate it in Tehran after the Iranians revealed it, noting that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken during a press conference in 2018 about the progress made by Iran at the nuclear level,He then called for remembering the name of Mohsen Fakhry Zadeh.

It also indicated that Israel assassinated 5 Iranian Nawin agents, wounded a sixth, and also killed the first official for the Iranian missile program and 16 members of his team.

Robot killer

The American newspaper report stated that the assassination was carried out without any agents on the ground and by a fatal robot capable of launching 600 rounds per minute, a new high -tech weapon equipped with artificial intelligence and multiple satellites that work.

He explained that the system that was used in the process was not different from its "Sentinel 20" counterpart, which is manufactured by the Spanish company "Escribano".

According to the sources that the New York Times spoke to, the weighing the machine gun with the robot and the rest of the accessories combined about about a ton, so the equipment was dismantled into small pieces, and then smuggled to Iran in different ways and at different times, then it was secretly re -assembled there.

The report stated that the robot was built to suit the size of the Nissan Zamyad truck basin that is commonly used in Iran, and cameras were also installed in multiple directions on the truck to give the driver's room a full picture not only of the goal and its security details, butFor the surrounding environment.

In the end, the truck was booby -trapped so that it could be detonated from a distance and turned into small parts after the end of the killing in order to destroy all the evidence, according to the New York Times.

With the purpose of determining the target accurately, Iranian agents recruited by the Israeli Mossad put the small truck on the side of the road that Fakhri Zadeh takes, and pretending to be idle, while it was provided with a camera linked to satellites that send the photos directly to the headquarters of the operation.

The American newspaper report confirmed that the entire operation took less than a minute, during which only 15 bullets were fired, as Iranian investigators indicated that the bullets did not pour Fakhri Zadeh's wife, who was sitting a few centimeters away from it..

The semi -official Fars news agency reported days after the assassination that the operation took about 3 minutes, and that there was no human element in the assassination place, noting that the nuclear world car was shot with automatic weapons that were controlled remotely.

And then, other Iranian media reported that the weapons used in the assassination are an Israeli industry, and they were controlled by satellites..

American support for assassination

In its report, the New York Times revealed that the preparations for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhry Zadeh were launched after meetings between Israeli and American officials in late 2019 and early 2020.

The report stated that the meetings participated in the Israeli side, Mossad President Yossi Cohen, and from the American side senior officials, including President Donald Trump, his foreign minister, Mike Pompeo, and the director of the CIA, Gina Hasbel.

The newspaper said that after Trump withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the major powers, Israel wanted to resume its campaign against the Iranian nuclear program, which it says includes a hidden aspect of making a nuclear weapon.

She pointed out that the Mossad president offered the Americans a list of possible operations against Iranian goals, including the nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhry Zadeh.

The New York Times quoted an official of Israeli -American meetings as saying that US officials who were informed of the assassination plan Fakhry Zadeh supported her..