Fakhrizadeh's son on assassination: Security team warned him about danger

• Published date: 06 December 2020
• Date: 06 December 2020
• Author: EVE YOUNG
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

He said that when his father was killed, it was "a war zone," and that he was killed by "four or five bullets" which were shot by mercenaries at short range. He went on to explain that his mother was also in the car but was unharmed, suggesting that the killing was a targeted assassination, N12 reported.

Fakhrizadeh's son also said that his father's security team warned him that he should not make the car trip due to a higher level of risk that day, N12 reported. "My father refused because he had an important meeting, and he was supposed to lecture to students. He insisted on returning to Tehran the same day," he said.

Fakhrizadeh was shot and killed in Damavand, east of Tehran. There have been competing narratives over the killing of the man who was at the pinnacle of Iran's nuclear industrial complex.

Pictures from the scene showed two vehicles, one damaged in an explosion and another riddled with bullets in what appeared like a professional hit.

Fakhrizadeh was a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps...