Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has said that the killing of the country's senior nuclear scientist will not slow down the country's nuclear program.

Hasan Rouhani accused Israel of killing top nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizadeh and said that these steps show how upset he is and how much he hates us.

Iran had earlier appealed to the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council to condemn the killing of its top nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizadeh.

According to the information received so far, Fakhrizadeh was ambushed by gunmen in the city of Absard, adjacent to the capital Tehran. However, no news of any attacker has been caught so far.

Ambassador to the United Nations of Iran Majid Takht Ravanchi said the killing of Mohsin Fakhrizadeh was a clear violation of international laws, which was carried out with the aim of creating unrest in the region.

At the same time, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for restraint in this matter.

According to Reuters, Guterres spokesman Farhan Haq said on 27 November 2020, "We have noted the news of the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist near Tehran today. We urge restraint and avoid any action which may increase tension in the area. ''

Other Iranian authorities have accused Israel of murder and warned of revenge.

Israel has not yet responded to this, but has previously accused Mohsin Fakhrizadeh of being the mastermind of a secret nuclear weapons program.

What is the whole matter?

Iran's Ministry of Defense informed that one of its top nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizadeh has been killed. After the attack Fakhrizadeh was taken to a local hospital but his life could not be saved.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif condemned Fakhrizadeh's murder, calling it 'a state-sponsored terror incident'.

Intelligence agencies of Western countries believe that Mohsin Fakhrizadeh was behind Iran's intelligence program.

Foreign diplomats called him 'the father of the Iranian atomic bomb'. Iran has been saying that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Four nuclear scientists from Iran were killed between 2010 and 2012, and Iran blamed Israel for this.

How was Mohsin Fakhrizadeh murdered?

Iran's Defense Ministry issued a statement on 27 November 2020 saying, "Armed militants targeted the car carrying Mohsin Fakhrizadeh, the head of the Ministry of Defense's research and innovation department."

According to the ministry, "He was badly injured in the skirmish between the militants and Fakhrizadeh's bodyguards and was taken to a local hospital but unfortunately all attempts by the medical team to save him failed."

According to Iranian news agency Fars, the eyewitnesses first heard the sound of explosions and then firing from machine guns.

According to the agency, eyewitnesses have also said that three-four extremists were killed.

Is Israel involved in this murder?

Iran's Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif tweeted, "Terrorists have killed a prominent Iranian scientist today. These rude actions, which have serious indications of Israel being at hand, reflect the assassins' intention to fight. ''

Zarif said, "Iran urges international communities, especially the European Union, to end their shameful double stance and condemn this terrorist move."

He said in another tweet, "Iran is once again a victim of terrorism. Terrorists have brutally murdered a great Iranian scholar. Our heroes have always faced terrorism for stability and security in the world and our region. The punishment of those who do wrong is the law of Allah.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Iranian Army has said that Iran will avenge the killing of its scientist.

Major General Hussein Salami of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said, "There is a clear attempt to stop us from accessing modern science by killing nuclear scientists."

Who was Mohsin Fakhrizadeh?

Mohsin Fakhrizadeh was Iran's foremost nuclear scientist and a senior IRGC official. According to security experts from Western countries, he was very powerful in Iran and had a major role in Iran's nuclear weapons program.

Israel claimed to have obtained some intelligence documents in the year 2018, according to which Mohsin started Iran's nuclear weapons program.

At the time, Netanyahu gave Mohsin Fakhrizadeh a key scientific agreement for Iran's nuclear program in a press conference, saying, "Remember that name."

In 2015, the New York Times compared Mohsin Fakhrizadeh to J. Robert Openheimer. Openheimer was the scientist who led the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II.

Israel has not yet reacted to Fakhrizadeh's assassination.

Why was Mohsin Fakhrizadeh targeted?

Mohsin Fakhrizadeh was certainly an important figure as head of the Department of Research and Innovation in the Iranian Ministry of Defense. This is the reason why Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in a warning tone two years ago, 'Remember his name'.

Since the US split from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Iran has moved forward. Iran has accumulated reserves of low enrichment uranium and has cultivated uranium higher than the level set in the agreement.

Iranian officials have been saying from the beginning that enriched uranium can be destroyed, but it is very difficult to eradicate the work done towards research and development.

Ali Asghar Sutlaniya, former Ambassador of Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently said, "We cannot go back."

If Mohsin Fakhrizadeh was really as important to Iran's nuclear program as Israel is alleged to have been in his accusations, his assassination probably suggests that someone is trying to rein in Iran's momentum.

America's newly elected President Joe Biden said that he would return to the Iran nuclear deal after coming to power. The murder of Mohsin Fakhrizadeh could also be an attempt to make any such possibility difficult.

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