Assassinated Iranian scientist believed to have been running nuclear weapons program

The reports indicate that Fakhrizadeh was also working for the military, and in fact was the main force behind Iran's controversial and secretive program to develop a nuclear arsenal.

According to The New York Times, "Mr. Fakhrizadeh was an academic, but a series of classified reports, notably a lengthy 2007 assessment done by the C.I.A. for the George W. Bush administration, said the academic role was a cover story. In 2008, his name was added to a list of Iranian officials whose assets were ordered frozen by the United States."

Covert agents's reports detail that Fakhrizadeh was in charge of two ultra clandestine projects sponsored by the Iranian government, titled simply "Project 110" and "Project 111", which purportedly have to do with designing warheads which would allow for delivery of a nuclear payload with a smaller-size missile.

Fakhrizadeh was driving in his car on a country road within Iranian borders when he was ambused and killed. The killers remain unknown, and no one has claimed responsibility for the assassination.

Iran claimed to have disbanded its nuclear program in 2003, but the gesture appeared to have lacked credibility, then, and even more so now, in the light of the new information that has been made available.