TEHRAN, 1 December 2020, (TON): A Senior Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using “electronic devices” to remotely kill Fakhrizadeh, a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s.  
Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, made the comment at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, where Iran’s defense minister separately vowed to continue the man’s work “with more speed and more power.”  
“Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was done using electronic equipment and no [perpetrators] were at the scene,” he added. 
Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the last decade.
He also accused the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) a foreign-based Iranian “regime change” organisation of having a role in the attack without elaborating. 
Fakhrizadeh headed Iran’s so-called AMAD program, which Israel and the West have alleged was a military operation looking at the feasibility of building a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy Agency says that “structured program” ended in 2003. US intelligence agencies concurred with that assessment in a 2007 report. 
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz has sent a cable to all Israeli diplomatic delegations around the globe urging diplomats to maintain “the highest level of readiness and awareness of any irregular activity” around missions and Jewish community centers. 
Iran has vowed revenge for the assassination of Fakhrizadeh. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu specifically mentioned Fakhrizadeh in a presentation, saying “remember that name.” 
The Iran–Israel proxy conflict is bound in threats, hostility of Iran's leaders against Israel. Neither Iran or Israel may seek war but a diplomatic breakdown after the US pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, strategic errors and a military buildup make a direct conflict.