Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, accused Israel's intelligence agency of orchestrating the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Fakhrizadeh died of gunshot wounds sustained during an ambush while his car was driving on a highway north of Tehran. Shamkhani also linked the attack to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a Paris-based coalition of Iranian dissidents. According to Shamkhani, Mossad and the NCRI conducted the operation "remotely" by relying on unspecified "electronic devices." Iranian news agencies have reported that the assassination was carried out using a remote-control machine gun as well as by weapons "controlled by satellite."