Middle East Back on Fire after the killing of the Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh

Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman in condemning the Friday assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, France urges restraint. Last Friday, Iran announced that an important player in its security apparatus had been killed. The target of the attack was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a key architect of the country’s nuclear weapons program known as Project Amad that ended in 2003 (though elements of it continued for a few years after). Fakhrizadeh’s death marks the second time this year that a foreign adversary successfully targeted and killed a major Iranian figure: In January, the United States killed Qassem Suleimani,…