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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
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محسن فخریزاده
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi
محسن فخریزاده مهابادی 1958 Qom, Iran
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| Died | 27 November 2020 (aged 61–62) Absard, Damavand, Iran
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| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds during assassination |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Occupation | Nuclear physicist |
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Revolutionary Guards Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics |
| Years of service | 1980–2020 |
| Rank | Brigadier general |
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi (Persian: محسن فخریزاده مهابادی; 1958 – 27 November 2020) was an Iranian nuclear physicist. He was a professor of physics at Imam Hussein University in Tehran.
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.
Murder
On 27 November 2020, Fakhrizadeh was assassinated while traveling in a caer near Tehran. The attack began when a truck carrying explosives hidden under a load of wood exploded near Fakhrizadeh's car. A second car was destroyed with a bomb.
