Father of Iranian atomic bomb killed

Asesinado el padre de la bomba atómica iraní

Mossad had been following in his footsteps for a long time, although it was not until 2018 that the then and now Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, presented to the media the secret documents in which Mohsen Fajrizadeh-Mahabadi appeared as the chief scientist of the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program. 
"Keep this name," Netanyahu told reporters at the time. Not only they, but all agents and contractors of Mossad fixed in his brain the supposed image and name of the person who was attributed with the ability to provide Iran with the ultimate weapon to destroy Israel. A program initiated in the middle of the last decade of the last century, supposedly frozen in 2003, and reactivated at full speed after the United States broke the nuclear agreement, also signed with the European Union. 


That a price had been put on his head was more than a suspicion. This Friday, the holiday in the Muslim world, Fajrizadeh has joined the lists of Islamic "martyrs". The scientist was traveling by road when in the vicinity of the city of Absard his motorcade was attacked with grenades and machine gun fire by a commando composed of an indeterminate number of men. Transferred to the hospital, Fajrizadeh did not manage to survive his serious injuries. 
As was customary, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Yavad Zarif, called the attack "state terrorism" and without hesitation pointed to the Israeli secret services as the perpetrators of the attack, in addition to announcing to them a terrible revenge. 


The suspicions about Mossad are, of course, joined by all the movements that have occurred in recent days, both in Washington and in the Middle East, in seven of whose countries US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made a farewell trip. The latter revealed that he had met on the penultimate day of his tour, in the Saudi city of Neom, with Netanyahu himself and the Crown Prince and strongman of Arabia Mohamed Bin Salman. Even though Saudi diplomacy denied the celebration of the meeting, and the publicity given by Netanyahu, who was accompanied by the very chief of Mossad, all indications point to the fact that in such conclave they could decide, if not to take knowledge of the operation that Mossad would carry out in order to remove the head of the nuclear program of the common enemy, that is, of Iran. 


Almost simultaneously, in Washington, suspicions had grown that President Donald Trump, after his electoral defeat and before transferring power, would attempt a coup of resounding effect. These suspicions were increased when he asked his military and security advisors to show him all the possible options to attack Iran's nuclear installations. 
With such data, it could be assured with all certainty that, if it had not been an operation carried out jointly by the Americans and the Israelis, and had only been carried out by agents of the Jewish state, both the White House and the Royal Palace in Riyadh would have been fully informed in advance, and would even have given their approval and support to the attack. The objective is common: to curtail Iran's aspirations to dominate the Gulf and to set itself up against Saudi Arabia as the leading power of the Muslim world. And, of course, to eliminate the threat to Israel, convinced that the Iran of the ayatollahs will never cease trying to destroy it.