In 2020, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was gunned down on a remote stretch of road outside Tehran. But as the dust settled, one thing stood out as being particularly strange.  
Apart from the victim, his wife, and their security detail, there was no one else around. No assailants, no witnesses, and no collateral damage. 
Israel was the prime suspect.  Had they just enacted one of the most technologically advanced assassinations of all time?
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00:00 Israel-Iran war
01:37 Hello my friend
02:06 Iran's Oppenheimer
03:20 The car ride
06:25 Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh?
08:32 The prime suspect
11:07 The high tech hit explained
16:50 Fakhrizadeh made it easy
18:00 Iran's nuclear ambitions
Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Sound: John Jacobs
Video Producer: Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Supervising Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn
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