Following Iran’s nuclear scientist assassination, Israel declares high security alert
RAMALLAH, Palestine (North Press) – Israel raised on Saturday, the level of high security alert for its diplomatic missions in various parts of the world, according to Israeli media.
This came against the background of Iran’s accusation that Israel was behind the assassination of the prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran, on Friday.
On Saturday, Iran vowed to take “harsh” revenge on those responsible for the assassination.
Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, accused on Twitter, Israel.
The Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is one of the most prominent Iranian scientists in his field, and he was head of the Research and Innovation Organization at the Ministry of Defense.
A United Nations spokesman said that the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, called for restraint and avoiding any actions that might lead to an escalation of tension in the region, after the assassination of Fakhrizadeh.
Anan Wahbe, a strategic researcher and lecturer at the University of Haifa, told North Press that the assassination of Fakhrizadeh was an exploitation of the transitional period in America by Israel and the Trump administration.
“Iran refrains threatening and revenging, and is waiting for Joe Biden to enter the White House,” he said.
“The Iranian regime is very dependent on the new US administration, and it wants to return to a new nuclear agreement and to lift economic sanctions on Iran at all costs,” Wahbe added.
He pointed out that Iran’s effort makes it “controlling its nerves, despite the heavy blow with the assassination of the godfather of its nuclear project.”
“Israel realizes that the timing of the assassination puts Iran in a confusion between responding to save the now threatened Iranian deterrence, and not responding to maintain a climate of dialogue with the West,” he noted.
Trump hopes that Iran will fall into the trap of retaliation, which creates a tense atmosphere that makes it impossible for Biden to return to the Iran nuclear deal, according to Wahbe.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had previously mentioned Mohsenzadeh’s name, and publicly disclosed his picture at the press conference, in which he announced the theft of the Iranian nuclear archive.
According to a report published by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Fakhrizadeh is a researcher familiar with tremendous information in nuclear physics and chemistry necessary to build a nuclear bomb, and he has exciting administrative capabilities.
The report indicated that “thanks to the efforts of the Iranian opposition and the Israeli Mossad to uncover the Iranian nuclear program, many materials were collected about Fakhrizadeh.”
Among the information collected, his office identifier in the “Center for Modern Defense Readiness and Technology, his home address on Shahid Muhallalati Street in Tehran, and his personal phone number, according to the report.
The report added that until 2003, Fakhrizadeh worked in senior research and administrative positions, especially within the framework of the “Iranian Atomic Energy Agency”.
The Israeli media stressed the need for the Israeli army to take caution against carrying out reprisals in response to the assassination of the “father” of the Iranian nuclear program.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in addition to the Lebanese Hezbollah, condemned the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran.