Iran advocates revenge 'in due course' for assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fajrizadeh

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Tehran has assured that the murder of scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh will have an answer.

But, from the statements of the last hours it is clear that Iran will not repeat a missile attack like the one that followed the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, last January.

In a speech, President Hasan Rohani has

sentenced: "Our people are wise enough not to fall into the trap of the Zionist regime (Israel) ... Iran will respond to the martyrdom of our scientist at the appropriate time."

Rohani refers to the dilemma posed by the attack

committed yesterday 90 kilometers from Tehran: if the "severe revenge" promised this Friday is fulminant, its possible instigators will have arguments to blame Iran for escalating the situation, and thus poisoning any possible attempt by the new US president to restore diplomacy, as was his stated intention;

or if Iran offers no response, further hostile acts can be expected from the Trump Administration and its allies.

The leader's words suggest that, despite the heavy blow inflicted on the soul of its nuclear program,

continuing with its doctrine of "strategic patience."

With it, it did not respond head-on to incidents such as the sabotage of its Natanz uranium enrichment facility last summer, or the latest rounds of

His short-term goal is for Joe Biden to undo the sanctioning tangle to ease the financial pressure.

However, the Iranian government will not have an easy time managing the internal pressure.

During the night, several dozen protesters gathered outside the presidential office demanding "no compromise" with the United States.

The front pages of the hard-wing newspapers, politically on the rise as a result of the strategy

American of "total pressure" of recent years,

Voices in Parliament call for the expulsion of the nuclear inspectors in retaliation.

The resurrection of the 2015 nuclear agreement, which allows Iran to develop a peaceful nuclear program under strict observation in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, and which Donald Trump tried to suppress by withdrawing from it, and reimposing the penalties, is the final objective of the Iranian Executive .

Tehran gave up part of its commitments in response to the sanctions and European collusion with them, but in recent days it has underscored its willingness to back down if Biden acts.

At the same time, in recent weeks the Western press had drawn attention to the possibility that Trump or other victims of the Democratic election, such as the Hebrew Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, took advantage of the last months of the Republican presidency to raise tension with Iran. , to the point of forcing him to react with virulence and bog down any avenue for dialogue.

In the middle of the month it became known that

Israel, which has not commented on Friday's assassination, had in the past insisted on its intentions not to allow Iran to develop a nuclear program of a military nature.

While Mohsen Fakhrizadeh headed a wing of the Defense Ministry in charge of defending the country against nuclear threats

or biological, and its involvement in the pursuit of a nuclear bomb for Iran is documented, the IAEA has notified that this last project ended in 2003, and that it is not current.

In a statement, the Iranian Supreme Leader has defined Fakhrizadeh as a "prominent and distinguished nuclear and defense scientist."

According to

Iran's number one priority should be to "firmly investigate and prosecute its perpetrators and their commanders," which it did not name, and, second, "to continue scientific and technological efforts in all sectors" in the that Fakhrizadeh worked.

Another voice to take into account in the last hours is that of Hossein Dehghan.

This member of the Guardian Corps of the Revolution is a military adviser to the Supreme Guide and the first recognized candidate to take the reins of the Executive after the presidential elections next June.

In a television interview this Saturday,

Dehghan has vowed to "wreak havoc" on the killers.

"Calling for revenge is legitimate, but Iran will act wisely. It will not leave enemy aggression unanswered. We will determine when and where to respond."

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