AhlulBayt News Agency:. Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva Esmail Baqayee Hamaneh highlighted the invaluable services assassinated scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has rendered to health and medical sectors, calling on the World Health Organization to react to the terrorist act.
Baqayee Hamaneh made the remarks in a letter to the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.
He enumerated the services of martyr Fakhrizadeh to Iran’s health and medical services sectors, and underlined the need for WHO to stop silence and condemn the criminal act of assassinating the top scientist.
The diplomat outlined the scientist’s services including production of the country's first ever COVID-19 test kits and also supervising and managing COVID-19 vaccine production line, and said that keeping silent and being passive towards this murder has no justifications whatsoever as it will turn such crimes as habitual routines across the world.
Earlier, in a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the Iranian envoy said that there are serious indications of Israeli role in this “heinous assassination”.
Baqayee Hamaneh reiterated that the assassination of Fakhrizadeh is a blatant violation of international law, human rights, and all the moral values.
The Iranian envoy warned against the serious threats posed by state terrorism to the rule of law and international peace and security.
Martyr Fakhrizadeh's car was targeted by an explosion and machinegun fire in Damavand's Absard 40 kilometers to the East of Tehran on Friday.
The nuclear scientist and one of his companions were immediately taken to a nearby hospital but he could not be saved.
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