Story By: Ana Marjanovic, Sub-Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Newsflash
An Iranian rocket scientist who was working on developing top-secret missiles and drones has been found dead in mysterious circumstances.
Ayoob Entezari died on Tuesday, 31st May, just one day after the death of a colonel from Iran’s elite Quds Force was announced by the Islamic Republic.
The unit is part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and is responsible for overseas missions.
His death was the second from the same unit in just two weeks.
Before Dr Entezari died, he was allegedly working on new missiles and drones at a research and development centre in the provincial capital of Yazd.
The scientist had graduated from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran with a PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
According to some reports, Dr Entezari had returned home following a dinner party with food poisoning symptoms.
His condition worsened and he later died in hospital, while the person who had invited him to the dinner party swiftly fled the country.
Other reports suggested he was assassinated by Israeli’s national intelligence agency Mossad.
The judicial authorities of Yazd Province, however, said Dr Entezari was just an ordinary employee of an industrial company and died in hospital due to “illness”.
