Fakhrizadeh. Double message, in Tehran and Biden: no one is immune and there is no going back to JCPOA
First the agencies and state TV, then the Iranian Ministry of Defense confirmed: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered the father of Iranian nuclear power, was killed near Tehran, near Absard. Fakhrizadeh was known among experts for his leading role in the secret Amad and SPND nuclear program and was named in 2018 by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, when he presented to the press what the Mossad had managed to steal from Iran: thousands of files on the program clandestine nuclear power of the ayatollahs regime, revealing among other things the existence of a shed used for nuclear purposes and never declared, not far from the capital.
Tehran points the finger at Israel: Foreign Minister Zarif spoke of "serious indications of the Israeli role". Military adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Hossein Dehghan, swears revenge on Twitter . No comment from US President Trump, but he retweeted the news of the killing. Certainly, after the killing of Soleimani, another very hard blow to Iranian military capabilities and ambitions.
Now, assuming that we do not know and probably will never know for sure who killed Fakhrizadeh, what does his killing tell us? There are at least two indications. The first is that Iran is a sieve when it comes to security. The Iranian regime has never managed to protect the scientists involved in its clandestine military and nuclear programs and, only in recent days, has it failed to prevent the elimination, in the heart of the country, of the number 2 of al-Qaeda and, indeed, , Fakhrizadeh. Your security is a sieve, no one is unreachable, no one is immune, it is the first clear message to reach the top of the Iranian regime. On the other hand, as Atlantico Quotidiano reported – the only information site in Italy – only a few days ago the photos of the commander of the Foza Qods for Asia and the Caucasus were released while he was in a restaurant in Turkey.
The second message seems instead directed to the new US administration that the probable presidential winner, Democrat Joe Biden, is putting together these days. In this case, a double message: there is no going back, to the old JCPOA, the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program wanted in 2015 by former President Obama, there is no going back. Then, a statement of distrust of those figures, already called by Biden to be part of his administration in key posts, such as the new National Security Advisor Sullivan, who strongly support the return of the United States to the Iran deal. The expectation that a Biden administration wants to go back to the past is high and, for this reason, it is better to clean up first.
As for the possible perpetrators, and instigators, of the killing of Fakhrizadeh, in addition to Israel, the most extremist factions within the Iranian regime itself must also be considered. In fact, it is not excluded that these have decided to act, before Biden's inauguration, to radicalize internal and external political positions, and kill two birds with one stone: to dissuade their government from reopening negotiations with Washington, a hypothesis on which the President Rouhani has shown himself to be a possibility, and to fuel national resentment to pave the way for the presidency of Iran for an ultra-conservative close to the Pasdaran (elections will be held in June 2021).
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