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Is this the most technologically sophisticated assassination of all time? | ASSASSINS
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22:21Now PlayingIn 2020, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was gunned down on a remote stretch of road outside Tehran. But as the dust settled, one thing stood out as being particularly strange.
Apart from the victim, his wife, and their security detail, there was no one else around. No assailants, no witnesses, and no collateral damage.
Israel was the prime suspect. Had they just enacted one of the most technologically advanced assassinations of all time?
Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Sound: John Jacobs
Video Producer: Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Supervising Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn
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