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Amazing new details of the Fakhrizadeh assassination emerge in the Iranian press: IRGC affiliated Fars news reports the assassination was done using an automatic machine gun operated with a remote control and not with gunmen who were on the ground.

According to the report Fakhrizadeh and his wife were on their way to spend the weekend at their house in a Tehran suburb. There were three security cars with them and at a certain point the leading car left the motorcade to do a preliminary security check of the house.

Right after the car at the front of the motorcade left shots were fired on Fakhrizadeh’s car and it stopped. Fakhrizadeh stepped out of the car thinking his car hit an object on the road or there was a problem with the engine.

At that point shots were fired again from a Nisan pickup truck which stopped 150 meters from Fakhrizadeh’s car. The shots were fired from an automatic machine gun which was mounted on the pickup truck and operated by remote control.

Fakhrizadeh was hit by three bullets – one hit him in the spine. Seconds later the Nisan pickup truck exploded in what looks like a self destruct mechanism. According to Fars news Iranian security forces identified the owner of the pickup truck who left Iran on October 29th.

Fars reported the assassination operation lasted only three minutes and was all done by remote control with no gunmen on the ground.

This scenario doesn't make any sense. So the guy being guarded was simply allowed to step into the open outside the car, without cover, in already suspicious circumstances? Shouldn't a bodyguard do these things for him? How could the assassins have known that he'd do that, and not say turn back?

I suspect they don't really know what happened, and right now we're getting various wild rumours.

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1333080696282288128?s=...

^thread with details in english.

What would have happened if Iran had succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons?

And what effect will this have on Iran's political leadership?