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Iran Embassy in Indonesia Condemns Attack Against Iranian Nuclear Mastermind
Written by Nur Yasmin
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Jakarta, Voice of Indonesia. The Iran Embassy in Jakarta releases a statement condemning the terrorist attack and against Iranian scientist Prof. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27, 2020.
“The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns this brutal murder and inhumane act, and calls out the international community, countries that defend human rights, and independent media to condemn this criminal, terroristic attack,” the statement says as received by Voice of Indonesia on Thursday.
Fakhrizadeh, who is the head of Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research and a senior official in the nuclear program of Iran, was murdered brutally from gunshot attack while he was traveling in a car in Absard, Tehran. The assailants were not identified, but Iranian officials blamed Israel.
“For the last year, several Iranian scientists and heroes becomes the target and getting murdered by various terrorist attacks. The recent murder of our senior nuclear scientist have the same characteristic and method which usually used by the Israeli terrorists,” the release says.
Rear Admiral Shamkhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, confirmed that the scientist was killed by a remote-controlled weapon, that "It was a very complex mission using electronic equipment”, as BBC reported.
The statement claimed that the murder aims to create a major crisis to prevent Iran’s nuclear agreement Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). They also claimed that Israel, the only other country who holds a nuclear weapon in the Middle East, designed the attack.
They added that since 2015, Israel have been persuading US to leave the deal and sanction Iran again. US finally left the deal in 2018 under Donald Trump presidency, saying it was “defective at its core”.
Aside from being an instrumental agent to Iranian nuclear program, Fakhrizadeh had a major role in developing Covid-19 test kit and vaccine for Iran. The country has no access to humanitarian and medical aids due to sanctions from the United States.
