{"id":116790,"date":"2020-12-07T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/iran-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-used-to-kill-top-nuclear-scientist"},"modified":"2020-12-07T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:22:19","slug":"iran-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-used-to-kill-top-nuclear-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/iran-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-used-to-kill-top-nuclear-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Satellite-controlled machine gun used to kill top nuclear scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iran-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-used-to-kill-top-nuclear-scientist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201d Martyr Fakhrizadeh was driving when a weapon, using an advanced camera, zoomed in on him,\u201d Fadavi said, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 13 shots were fired at martyr Fakhrizadeh with a machine gun controlled by satellite\u2026 During the operation artificial intelligence and face recognition were used,\u201d he said. \u201cHis wife, sitting 25 centimeters away from him in the same car, was not injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe machine gun was placed on a pick-up truck and was controlled by a satellite,\u201d he added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\uddd0\ud83e\udd28<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An Iranian senior commander was quoted as saying that a satellite-controlled machine gun and artificial intelligence were used to kill the country\u2019s top nuclear scientist.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, saying on Sunday that scientist <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/person\/mohsen-fakhrizadeh\">Mohsen Fakhrizadeh<\/a> was hit with \u201csome 13 shots\u201d in an attack that <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/527724-iranian-scientist-linked-to-military-nuclear-program-assassinated-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resulted in his death<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/iran-nuclear-scientist\/iran-says-smart-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-killed-top-nuclear-scientist-idUSKBN28H13F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/iran-satellite-controlled-machine-gun-used-to-kill-top-nuclear-scientist\">Continue reading \u201cIran: Satellite-controlled machine gun used to kill top nuclear scientist\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u201d Martyr Fakhrizadeh was driving when a weapon, using an advanced camera, zoomed in on him,\u201d Fadavi said, according to Reuters. \u201cSome 13 shots were fired at martyr Fakhrizadeh with a machine gun controlled by satellite\u2026 During the operation artificial intelligence and face recognition were used,\u201d he said. \u201cHis wife, sitting 25 centimeters away from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116790","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}