Iran Sentences 3 People to Death Over Assassination of Nuclear Scientist

In November 2020, physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the alleged head of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, was shot dead during an incident in Tehran.

A woman walks by a billboard honoring slain nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the Iranian capital Tehran on Nov. 30, 2020. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

Three people have been sentenced to death in Iran after being convicted of spying for Israel in relation to the assassination in 2020 of a top nuclear scientist, according to an Iranian news agency.

The semi-official Fars news agency quoted an Iranian judiciary spokesman, Asghar Jahangir, as saying the three unidentified individuals had “transferred equipment for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.”