A picture from Iran that’s worth a thousand warnings about the JCPOA – Why was the now-deceased top military nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh secretly decorated after the Iran nuclear deal came into effect? | Timesofisrael

The Iranian Islamic Republic made a considerable effort to explain to the Iranian people how grateful they should be to the late Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Brigadier General Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the mastermind and longtime leader of the Iranian military nuclear program. In this context, they issued some pictures of Fakhrizadeh hugging and schmoozing with the late commander of the IRGC Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani. This was intended to drive home how these two generals were responsible for the two parallel vectors of turning Iran into a hegemon superpower in the Islamic world and on the global dimension — one by exporting the Islamic revolution and the other by acquiring an arsenal of nuclear weapons.