Was Iran's Top Cyber Commander Assassinated? (Update)

Mourners at Mojtaba Ahmadi's funeral. Radio Free Europe

Iran Claims Cyber Warfare Expert Not Assassinated, As Israel Remains Cagey Over Involvement -- Independent

Mojtaba Ahmadi is the latest in a string of Iranian commanders and scientists to meet an untimely end

Israel has said it was “not necessarily” involved in the death of the head of Iranian cyber warfare, Mojtaba Ahmadi. He was killed north of Tehran on Saturday or early this week, becoming the latest in a string of Iranian nuclear and war effort experts to meet an untimely end.

“The fact that a cyber commander or this or that scientist was wiped out or killed in this or that assassination does not necessarily mean that Israel’s hand is in the matter,” Science and Technology Minister – and former head of Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet – Yaacov Peri told Israel Radio. “At the same time, it’s definitely the type of operation that can slow the danger in the Iranian issue both in the nuclear realm and in the realm of cyber.”

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