The heavy water facility in Arak, Iran (Wikipedia)An Iranian Oppenheimer? The Mystery Man Behind Tehran's Secret Nuclear Program -- World Crunch
The lynchpin at the center of Iran's nuclear weapons program, Mohsen Fakrizadeh has drawn comparisons to both Robert Oppenheimer and Pakistan’s Abdul Qadeer Khan. U.N. inspectors would love to meet the elusive scientist. Others want him dead.
TEHRAN – He is the mysterious man behind Iran’s nuclear program, the invisible “boss” of the military program at the heart of current Middle East tensions. His name is Mohsen Fakrizadeh, and he's 50 years old. For the past 10 years, this specialist in nuclear physics, who is also a general of a brigade of Pasdarans, the elite branch of the regime's Revolutionary Guard, has overseen all of the different organizations charged with developing a nuclear warhead for Iran.
It is enough to say that his whole existence is clouded in extreme secrecy, since the Iranian government ferociously denies that the program he runs even exists.
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My Comment: I suspect that aside from a few top leaders in the Iranian government, he is the most protected man in Iran today.