Nuclear scientist killed by satellite-controlled machine gun that “zoomed in” on his face, Iran states

A satellite-managed device gun with “artificial intelligence” was made use of in past week’s assassination of a leading nuclear scientist in Iran, the deputy commander of the Innovative Guards advised local media Sunday. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was driving on a highway outside the house Iran’s funds Tehran with a security element of 11 guards on November 27, when the machine gun “zoomed in” on his confront and fired 13 rounds, stated rear-admiral Ali Fadavi.

The machine gun was mounted on a Nissan pickup and “targeted only on martyr Fakhrizadeh’s facial area in a way that his spouse, regardless of being only 25 centimetres away, was not shot,” Mehr news company quoted him as expressing.

It was remaining “managed on-line” through a satellite and employed an “advanced camera and artificial intelligence” to make the concentrate on, he claimed.

Fadavi stated that Fakhrizadeh’s head of safety took 4 bullets “as he threw himself” on the scientist and that there were being “no terrorists at the scene.”

Iranian authorities have blamed arch foe Israel and the exiled opposition team the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, recognized as MEK, for the assassination.

Condition-run Push Tv set had previously stated “created in Israel” weapons were being identified at the scene.

Many accounts of the scientist’s dying have emerged because the attack, with the defense ministry in the beginning indicating he was caught in a firefight with his bodyguards, though semi-official Fars news agency claimed “a distant controlled automatic equipment gun” killed him, with no citing any resources.

According to Iran’s defense minister, Amir Hatami, Fakhrizadeh was one particular of his deputies and headed the ministry’s Defense and Study and Innovation Firm, concentrating on the subject of “nuclear defense.”