{"id":116782,"date":"2020-12-07T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/iran-insists-that-its-nuclear-scientist-was-killed-by-a-satellite-controlled-machine-gun"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:30:59","slug":"iran-insists-that-its-nuclear-scientist-was-killed-by-a-satellite-controlled-machine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/iran-insists-that-its-nuclear-scientist-was-killed-by-a-satellite-controlled-machine-gun","title":{"rendered":"Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a \u201cSatellite-Controlled Machine Gun\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iran-insists-that-its-nuclear-scientist-was-killed-by-a-satellite-controlled-machine-gun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran\u2019s top nuclear scientist, was killed on November 27 by a \u201csmart satellite-controlled machine gun\u201d that used AI, the country\u2019s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Ali Fadavi told local media, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-55214359\"><em>BBC<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist was allegedly killed by a weapon mounted to a pickup truck, which shot Fakhrizadeh inside a vehicle from a distance \u2014 but spared his wife sitting right next to him.<\/p>\n<p>The weapon \u201cfocused only on martyr Fakhrizadeh\u2019s face in a way that his wife, despite being only 25cm [10 inches] away, was not shot,\u201d Gen Fadavi, Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, told a ceremony on Sunday, as quoted by the <em>BBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran\u2019s top nuclear scientist, was killed on November 27 by a \u201csmart satellite-controlled machine gun\u201d that used AI, the country\u2019s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Ali Fadavi told local media, as the BBC reports. The scientist was allegedly killed by a weapon mounted to a pickup truck, which shot Fakhrizadeh inside a vehicle from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}