Assassinations and sabotage in Iran

Iran has threatened to give a “calculated and decisive” response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist, as the country’s clerical and military rulers pile blame on the Islamic Republic’s longtime enemy, Israel


2009-10: U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet virus attack sabotages centrifuges at Natanz uranium enrichment site

2010-12: Four Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated – Masoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari, Darioush Rezaeinejad and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
Iran accuses Israel of killings

2015: Iran nuclear deal with six major world powers

2018: U.S. President Donald Trump quits Iran nuclear deal

Jan 2020: U.S. drone strike near Baghdad airport in Iraq kills Iran’s most powerful military commander, general Qassem Soleimani

Jul: Fire at Natanz plant blamed on cyber sabotage

Aug: Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Abu Muhammad al-Masri – accused of directing 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa – assassinated in Tehran by Israeli operatives acting at behest of U.S.

Nov 27: Prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (right) assassinated by gunmen in Tehran. Western officials believe Fakhrizadeh played pivotal role in suspected Iranian work looking into feasibility of building nuclear weapon


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Above left: Qassem Soleimani. Right: Abu Muhammad al-Masri


Source: Reuters 
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