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Hi, Stephanie McCrements from the Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm Martine Powers.

It's Tuesday, December 1.

Today the plot to kill Iran's top nuclear scientist, QAnon's Global Reach, and suffering with

COVID for the long haul.

Last Friday, shortly after noon, in an area east of Tehran in Iran, we began to get reports

of an attack and very quickly it emerged that a very well-known name, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh,

the father of the Iranian nuclear program had been killed.

Steve Hendrix is the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Post.

It wasn't long on Friday.

In fact, it was with an hour or two of the first reports coming out of Iran that people

began to say this really looks like an Israeli intelligence operation.

And it did have the hallmarks of previous killings that they have carried out, even some

Iranian soil.

Israel had no interest in commenting one way or the other on that.

But I would say that in the international community, it's almost become an assumption

that this was an Israeli operation.

So this was Iran's chief nuclear scientist.

The way that I've heard people describe it, if you think about the Manhattan Project

in the US, that this would have been the equivalent to the person who was the head of the Manhattan

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