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Assassination Rocks Iran, 'Serious Indications of Israeli Role'

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Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated near Tehran on Friday, according to state media.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is blaming Israel for the assassination, as Fakhrizadeh has been a major target by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, for many years.

“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice — with serious indications of Israeli role — shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Zarif tweeted. “Iran calls on int’l community — and especially EU — to end their shameful double standards & condemn this act of state terror.”

Photos of the incident depict a severely damaged cars with blown-out windows.

Hossein Salami, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, also released a statement about the assassination.

“The assassination of nuclear scientists is the most obvious violent confrontation of the domination system to prevent us from gaining access to modern science,” Salami tweeted in Farsi.

It is unknown at this time what the United States’ response will be to the assassination, especially due to high tensions with the nation after General Qassem Soleimani was killed in January.

However, the assassination comes at a turning point in American foreign policy, considering Joe Biden’s desire to reboot the Iran nuclear deal when he presumably becomes president next year.

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The Iran nuclear deal was a result of negotiations between Iran, the United States and several European countries that limited Iran’s uranium stockpile but also relaxed sanctions.

President Donald Trump decided that the United States would leave the deal in 2018 under the belief that the Obama administration let Iran off the hook too easily.

After Solemani’s assassination, Iran said they would stop following the rules of the deal and continue to develop a nuclear weapon.

The death of Fakhrizadeh represents a major setback in the Iranian nuclear program, which has recently been making progress.

As the Western world is on the verge of a major foreign policy shift, new challenges with Iran will certainly arise in the coming years.

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Cameron Arcand is a former writer for The Western Journal.
Cameron Arcand is a political commentator based in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2017 as a school project, he founded YoungNotStupid.com, which has grown exponentially since its founding. He has interviewed several notable conservative figures, including Dave Rubin, Peggy Grande and Madison Cawthorn.

In September 2020, Cameron joined The Western Journal as a Commentary Writer, where he has written articles on topics ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, the "Recall Gavin Newsom" effort and the 2020 election aftermath. The "Young Not Stupid" column launched at The Western Journal in January 2021, making Cameron one of the youngest columnists for a national news outlet in the United States. He has appeared on One America News and Fox 5 DC. He has been a Young America's Foundation member since 2019.
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