Targeted Killings: How Precedents Can Become Practice – Analysis

By Col. (Dr) D.P.K. Pillay*

On November 27, 2020, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a Brigadier in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a nuclear scientist who was heading the Iranian Research and Innovation Organisation, was killed through a remotely operated machine gun from a self-destructing truck. His death follows...