Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian nuclear physicist and key official in that country’s nuclear program, was killed in an ambush on a provincial road outside Tehran on 27 November 2020. The assassination was widely assumed to be the work of Israel, perhaps acting in coordination with the United Stat..
Pouya Alimagham
Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the Middle East at MIT, and author of Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2020). You can follow him on Twitter @iPouya.