{"id":71431,"date":"2020-12-02T16:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=71431"},"modified":"2021-05-08T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T11:47:29","slug":"assassination-of-iranian-nuclear-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/assassination-of-iranian-nuclear-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong>:\u00a0 Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist threatens will have serious geopolitical implications in West Asia and beyond<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fakhrizadeh, who is widely regarded as a key figure in Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons programme was recently killed in an ambush attack on a rural road outside Tehran.<\/li>\n<li>Also, note that Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general in charge of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard was killed by a US drone strike in January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What would be its impact on Peace in West Asia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Direct Wars<\/strong>: Iran has hinted that Israel and Saudi Arabia are behind the attack and has vowed revenge. Since the Iran-Iraq war, Tehran has conducted a sort of cold war against its rivals, acting largely through proxies such as the Houthi rebels in Yemen, rather than engaging in a direct conflict. A retaliation to the Fakhrizadeh assassination could change the dynamics of this conflict.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threatens renewal of nuclear deal with US<\/strong>: Israel can push Biden to seek greater concessions from Iran while re-negotiating the nuclear deal which Donald Trump pulled out. This hard strategy can result in strengthening more radical forces within Iran disturbing peace in West Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist threatens will have serious geopolitical implications in West Asia and beyond Background Fakhrizadeh, who is widely regarded as a key figure in Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons programme was recently killed in an ambush attack on a rural road outside Tehran. Also, note that Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general in charge&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/assassination-of-iranian-nuclear-scientist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,1351,1310],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-71431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904526},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}