Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi (; 195827 November 2020) was an Iranian nuclear physicist. He was a professor of physics at Imam Hussein University in Tehran. Among the victims of the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists, he was murdered in the ambush on November 27, 2020.

Career
He also was a brigadier general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, senior scientist in the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and the former head of the Physics Research Center (PHRC) at Lavizan-Shian.

Fakhrizadeh was believed by many countries as being in charge of Iran's nuclear programme, Project 111, which tried to help the country create a nuclear bomb.

Death
On 27 November 2020, Fakhrizadeh was shot and killed while traveling in a car near Tehran. After he was fatally shot, the attack began when a truck carrying explosives hidden under a load of wood exploded near his car. His three bodyguards were also killed before the bomb attack. He was 62 years old. Another car was also exploded and destroyed.

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