“Centrifuges will spin” – Israel and the United States failed to stop Iran’s nuclear program
The recent assassination of a leading nuclear physicist in Iran will not affect Iran's nuclear program.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes.
“The head of the Research and Innovation Center of the Iranian Ministry of Defense, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed on Friday afternoon on a highway about 90 km from Tehran. According to the latest version of what happened, at first the armored car in which the 63-year-old nuclear physicist was riding came under fire, but he mistook the sounds of gunfire for engine problems, went out and found himself under bullets.
The scientist was shot from a Nissan car, which was then blown up. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, with serious injuries, was taken by helicopter to the capital's hospital, where he soon died. This is the fifth assassination attempt on Iranian nuclear physicists over the past ten years, four of which were successful. Iran is convinced that all of them were organized by the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad with the support of the United States,” the article notes.
In turn, an analyst at the MGIMO Institute of International Studies, Adlan Margoev, told the publication that those political forces in Iran who are committed to resuming dialogue with the United States, after the assassination of General Soleimani, and now nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, will find it more difficult to “sell” the peace-loving concept of the Joint Comprehensive Plan plan of action (JCPOA) to the spiritual leadership and population of the country.
“The supporters of abandoning the JCPOA add another argument: the deal was respected, no benefits were received, the main general and nuclear physicist were killed. How can we then sit down again with the United States at the negotiating table without losing face?” - said the expert.
He also added that the loss to the Iranian nuclear program from the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh can only be accurately assessed by those who were in his circle.
“But practice shows that the work of established institutions in the long term is more important than the role of even the most brilliant and significant individuals. The assassinations of four physicists and General Soleimani did not nullify the dynamics of the nuclear and missile programs and did not affect Iran's regional policy. Missiles will be produced, centrifuges will spin, and allies will receive support from Tehran,” Margoev concluded.
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