EU foreign policy-chief Borrell offers “condolences” over the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The European Union has condemned the targeting of Iran’s nuclear weapons chief. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who led Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, was killed in an explosion near Iranian capital Tehran on Friday.
Fakhrizadeh, widely reported in the mainstream media as a ‘scientist,’ was a high-ranking member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist group. He apparently “retained a senior rank in the IRGC as a brigadier general,” British newspaper The Guardianconfirmed.
“This is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the EU stands for,” the EU foreign policy spokesperson told reporters on Saturday. The EU foreign policy-chief Josep Borrell paid “condolences” to the family of the deceased nuclear weapons mastermind.
The EU statement came after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday told Brussels to toe Tehran’s official line on the killing of its prominent WMD operative. “Last night Iranian FM Zarif instructed the European Union to condemn the killing of the nuclear weapons chief of Iran’s IRGC terrorist org, and to brand it as criminal,” U.S.-based national security expert Omri Ceren noted on Twitter.
The United Nations and Germany also issued similar statements of condemnations.
This article was sourced from LegalInsurrection
