Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi was a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Due to his affiliation with the Iranian nuclear program, both the United Nations Security Council and the United States ordered his assets frozen in the mid-2000s. In 2020, he helped develop COVID-19 testing kits for use during the pandemic.
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi was a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was an academic physicist, and a senior official in the nuclear program of Iran. Due to his affiliation with the Iranian nuclear program, both the United Nations Security Council and the United States ordered his assets frozen in the mid-2000s. In 2020, he helped develop COVID-19 testing kits for use during the pandemic. Likely due to his connections to Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, he was assassinated in a road ambush in Absard on 27 November 2020. Iran says that the attack utilized an autonomous satellite-operated gun. Israel is widely suspected of organizing the attack. The killing raised tensions in the region. In response to his death, the Iranian legislature passed a bill to block inspections of its nuclear program. The IAEA continues to seek corroboration of its findings. Iran has provided some information regarding Fakhrizadeh’s work which the IAEa says is not inconsistent with its findings, but the IEA continues to ask Iran for more information about his work. In the early 2000s, he led an initiative called the Biological Study Centre, described as a successor to the Physics Research Centre. The activities of this research group took place at Lavizan-Shian. In 2010, he established and led the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, which conducted research on nuclear weapons. According to Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., he led the team that developed the first Iranian CO VID-19 tests.
In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Fakhriveh was the head of the AMAD Project. He died on 29 November 2020 at the age of 60. He is survived by his wife, two children, and two grandchildren. He leaves behind a wife and a son. He also leaves a daughter, a son and a step-son. He has a brother and two step-grandchildren. He had a brother, a sister and a brother-in-law who are also in the Iranian military. He lived in Tehran and died in the city of Isfahan. He worked as a physics professor at Imam Hossein University from 1991 until his death. He received his B. Sc in nuclear physics from Shahid Beheshti University in 1987. He studied for a master’s degree at the Is fahan University of Technology and received a PhD in nuclear radiation and cosmic rays. In 2007, the UN Security Council identified him as a senior scientist in the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and the former head of the Physics research center. The UN said the International Atomic Energy Agency had asked to interview Fakhrioadeh and Iran refused to make him available. Iran denied the request over the period he was head, but Iran said he was a key figure in Iran’s nuclear programme. In a 2007 report by the UN on Iran’s nuclear programme, a UN resolution on the 2007 resolution identified Fakhritoadeh as a key figures in the Iran’s government-funded A-funded research department.
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