The Iranian judiciary has indicted nine individuals for corruption a land-based charge often used in cases of espionage or attempting to overthrow the Iranian government for the assassination of a prominent nuclear physicist, Masoud Setayesi, a spokesman for the judiciary, announced today.
These individuals are accused of corruption on land and collaboration with Israel crimes that carry the death penalty for the November 2020 murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, he explained.
Other charges were brought against six other defendants, he added, without specifying which ones.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was subject to U.S. sanctions for his role in Iran's nuclear program, was killed near Tehran in an attack on his motorcade.
Tehran's prosecutor, Ali Salehi, said 15 people were being questioned in the case, according to the Tasnim news agency, without naming them.
Iran[/B] accused Israel[/B] of being behind the attack, which Tehran said was carried out with, among other things, a satellite-controlled machine gun.
Israel[/B] never responded to these accusations.
[/P][BR][/P]In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had portrayed Fakhrizadeh as the director of a secret military nuclear program, the existence of which Iran has always denied.
Source: CNA
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