Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
During a routine inspection of Israel’s northern borders, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi says he “came to evaluate the current state of security” in the wake of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh near Tehran.
A strike with mass casualties “will definitely lead to deterrence, because the U.S. and the Israeli regime ... are by no means ready to take part in a war and a military confrontation,” writes Sadollah Zarei.
He headed the “weaponization” group of Iran’s nuclear program, attended an underground nuclear-weapons test in North Korea in 2013 and was earmarked for the stage following a sufficient accumulation of uranium, a former senior Israeli military intelligence analyst tells JNS.
During a briefing on Iran’s nuclear program in 2018, Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu had called Fakhrizadeh out as being involved.
