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 by AFP Staff Writers Tehran (AFP) Dec 6, 2022
Nine people will face the death penalty in Iran over the assassination of one of the country's top nuclear scientists, the judiciary said Tuesday. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed when his car was ambushed on a highway outside Tehran in November 2020, in an attack Iran blamed on its regional arch-foe Israel. The nine defendants were charged with "corruption on earth" and collusion with Israel, both capital offences in the Islamic republic, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi said. "Fakhrizadeh's case has 15 defendants," Setayeshi told a news conference. Along with those facing the death penalty, a further six people had "other accusations" levelled against them, he said. In September, Tehran's chief prosecutor Ali Salehi had announced 14 people were indicted in the case. The charges against them included "colluding with the purpose of disrupting national security" and "actions against national security", Salehi said at the time. Fakhrizadeh had been under US sanctions for his role in Iran's nuclear programme when he was killed. Iranian authorities claimed the attack included a bombing and a remote-controlled machine gun. Israel has never commented on the killing. In 2018, the Israeli government accused Fakhrizadeh of leading Iran's efforts to build an atomic bomb, a claim Iran has always vehemently denied.
Iran starts construction of new nuclear power plant Tehran (AFP) Dec 3, 2022 Iran has begun the construction of a new nuclear plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, the country's atomic energy agency said Saturday. Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced in televised remarks the start of construction of the 300-megawatt Karun power plant in the Darkhovin district of Khuzestan. Construction of the plant will take seven years and is expected to cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, he added on state television. Eslam ... read more
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