Iranian Scientist’s Assassin Really Was a Killer Robot
HOW THEY DID IT
The New York Times has reconstructed the remote-control machine-gun hit on Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last year.
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When Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in November 2020, seemingly wild claims that it was carried out by a killer robot emerged. Almost a year later, The New York Times reports that’s exactly what happened: a remote-controlled machine gun planted in a pickup truck and operated by a...