What’s happening in Iran?

[Marauder06]

Additional details on the most recent assassination:
An Iranian nuclear scientist was reportedly assassinated by a remote-controlled machine gun

The senior Iranian scientist who founded the country’s military nuclear program in the 2000s was reportedly killed near Tehran by a remote-controlled machine gun mounted on a commercial vehicle that subsequently exploded, according to press reports.

Holy crap that's James Bond-esque right there.

 

[DA SWO]

Additional details on the most recent assassination:
An Iranian nuclear scientist was reportedly assassinated by a remote-controlled machine gun



Holy crap that's James Bond-esque right there.

Let me go on a limb and say not the MEK.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Additional details on the most recent assassination:
An Iranian nuclear scientist was reportedly assassinated by a remote-controlled machine gun



Holy crap that's James Bond-esque right there.

This movie is gonna be EPIC.

 

[Devildoc]

This movie is gonna be EPIC.

Been done:

 

[Marauder06]

This movie is gonna be EPIC.

I think I already saw this installment of "Mission Impossible." ;)

 

[Gunz]

We went into INSERT COUNTRY HERE with good intentions, but we sure made a mess of things.

FIFY Sir.

 

[Brill]

Yikes!

An air strike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday.

They could not confirm the identity of the commander, who they said was killed alongside three other men traveling in a vehicle with him.

Iran’s IRGC commander targeted by a drone near Iraqi-Syrian border

 

[GOTWA]

Yikes!



Iran’s IRGC commander targeted by a drone near Iraqi-Syrian border

It's getting spicy!

 

[Brill]

It's getting spicy!

Biden’s gonna be pissed that there’s nobody left alive to kiss up to in Iran.

 

[DA SWO]

Biden’s gonna be pissed that there’s nobody left alive to kiss up to in Iran.

Funny you mention that.

I wonder if this is us or Israel taking care of business before Regime Change in January?

 

[SpitfireV]

Funny you mention that.

I wonder if this is us or Israel taking care of business before Regime Change in January?

There's a fair chance of that but it could also be that a particular project is about to hit a milestone and they want to retard it. TBH I dunno who in their right might would want to have anything to do with anything nuclear in Iran these days, it's a pretty risky endeavour.

 

[AWP]

Right now, working in Iran's nuke program means you don't have to worry about a retirement fund.

 

[Kraut783]

Maybe the next head nuclear scientist for Iran will just do zoom meetings, and not leave the house.

 

[CQB]

There seems to be a hypothesis that this & the bombing a little while ago have links to internal groups, possible run by Israel.

 

[Marauder06]

Maybe the next head nuclear scientist for Iran will just do zoom meetings, and not leave the house.

I'm pretty sure Mossad an as-yet-unnamed terrorist organization makes house calls. ;)

 

[Salt USMC]

I dunno. “Remote-controlled machine gun” seems a little too advanced for MeK, and is definitely too advanced for Ahvazi separatists.

 

[AWP]

There's video of the hit.

 

[Salt USMC]

Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei hands power to son due to health – report

Word is going around that the Supreme Leader is passing control to his son, albeit temporarily, because of deteriorating health conditions. This is coming from one journalist who supposedly has connections to the inner circle of Iranian power, so take that as you will.
Interesting to note because this is not legal under the Iranian constitution, and the son Mojtaba Khamenei was previously declared ineligible by the Assembly of Experts. The AoE is a deliberative body who, among other things, chooses the new supreme leader from among their own numbers.

 

[Gunz]

Smacks of monarchy, of House Pahlavi...Seem to recall it didn’t go over well last time.

 

[MosulMedic]

Seeing your username made me think of the show I'm watching on Netflix right now, "Mosul." have you seen it yet?