The Scientist and the AI-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The robot was built to fit in the bed of a Zamyad pickup, a common model in Iran.
54% : That afternoon, he and his wife would leave their vacation home on the Caspian Sea and drive to their country house in Absard, a bucolic town east of Tehran, where they planned to spend the weekend.
44% : In 2009, a hit team was waiting for Fakhrizadeh at the site of a planned assassination in Tehran, but the operation was called off at the last moment.
44% : Israel had paused the sabotage and assassination campaign in 2012 when the United States began negotiations with Iran leading to the 2015 nuclear agreement.
44% : As the intelligence poured in, the difficulty of the challenge came into focus: Iran had also taken lessons from the killing of Maj.
44% : Iran had already been shaken by a series of high-profile attacks in recent months that in addition to killing leaders and damaging nuclear facilities made it clear that Israel had an effective network of collaborators inside Iran.
41% : The plot had been compromised, the Mossad suspected, and Iran had laid an ambush.
40% : The news reports from Iran that afternoon were confusing, contradictory and mostly wrong.
38% : So the equipment was broken down into its smallest possible parts and smuggled into the country piece by piece, in various ways, routes and times, then secretly reassembled in Iran.
35% : Since 2004, when the Israeli government ordered its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the agency had been carrying out a campaign of sabotage and cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment facilities.

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