To recap.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was a leading figure in Iran’s nuclear weapons program which is intended to kill millions of people, especially Israeli Jews. 

Here’s the original story of how he allegedly died.

Shamkhani’s remarks drastically change the story of Fakhrizadeh’s killing, which took place Friday. Authorities initially said a truck exploded and then gunmen opened fire on the scientist, killing him and a bodyguard. State TV even interviewed a man the night of the attack who described seeing gunmen open fire.

That’s pretty crazy already. But the Iranian authorities apparently decided it looked bad and went with another story.

A top Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using “electronic devices” to remotely kill a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s. 

State TV’s English-language broadcaster Press TV reported earlier Monday that a weapon recovered from the scene of the attack bore “the logo and specifications of the Israeli military industry.”

How helpful of the Israelis.

State TV’s Arabic-language channel, Al-Alam, claimed the weapons used were “controlled by satellite,” a claim also made Sunday by the semiofficial Fars news agency.

Here’s where they ended up now.

The deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that a satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence” was used in the elimination of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on November 27.

The scientist was driving on a highway outside Iran’s capital Tehran with a security detail of 11 Guards when the machine gun “zoomed in” on his face and fired 13 rounds, said rear-admiral Ali Fadavi, according to AFP.

The machine gun was mounted on a Nissan pickup and “focused only on martyr Fakhrizadeh’s face in a way that his wife, despite being only 25 centimeters (10 inches) away, was not shot,” added Fadavi.

The machine gun was being “controlled online” via a satellite and used an “advanced camera and artificial intelligence” to make the target, he continued.

The original version of this story was bold and risky. This is… high tech?  Some of it’s doable, but would be difficult to pull off. This AI sattelite controlled machine gun was apparently capable of nailing  Fakhrizadeh, but not his wife, with 10 inches between them.

That part sounds like the Israelis who are scrupulous about collateral damage to a degree that their enemies, both in the region and in Europe, find almost absurd.

Since the pickup truck, presumably, didn’t parachute itself into Iran, someone, more than one of them, would still have had to set this up. Which still adds up to Israelis being able to operate deep inside Iran.