The strange end of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
This past Friday, one of Iran's most prominent scientists was killed in an apparent assassination. Nobody knows who did it, but it was fairly brazen, in broad daylight within the authoritarian state of Iran. Who could have performed such a bold, flawless strike within Iran?
"The killing comes just days before the 10-year anniversary of the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari , which Tehran also blamed on Israel. Those targeted killings came alongside the so-called Stuxnet virus, believed to be an Israeli and American creation, that destroyed Iranian centrifuges."
cbsnews.com/news/mohsen-fakhrizadeh-iran-nuclear-scientist-killed-assassination/
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh - Key Iranian Scientist
Israel is the leading suspect. They had the motive - While the Iranian nuclear program may not be a direct threat to the US, it is a clear threat to Israel, whom Iran has never accepted.
They also had the means - " Mossad , Mossad also spelled Mosad, in full Mossad Merkazi le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim , (Hebrew: “Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations”), one of the three major intelligence organizations of Israel , along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security). The Mossad is concerned with foreign intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, and covert operations."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mossad
If it was Mossad the message is clear. They can hit the Iranian nuclear program whenever they want. Iran has suffered the past 4 years. They have faced real sanctions which have shrunk the Iranian economy by about 6% a year. Their medical sector is far from first world status and they have struggled with the pandemic. The timing of the attack is also conspicuous. It comes at a time when help might just be on the way for Iran as the prospect of a friendly US administration is only months away.
Former CIA Director John Brennan (a national disgrace) tweeted the following:
"This was a criminal act & highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict. Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage & to resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits."
It seems that Obama's man at the CIA is as upset as Iran. He advises them to wait.
I don't know about Iran, but I doubt the nations threatened by a nuclear Iran are about to wait for a pro-Iran administration.
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Waiting time is over.
Trump and his followers are off topic.
How come Israel hasn't been blamed for the pandemic yet?
Because it started in china.
That's the definitive answer.
Why would they be? When the responsibility for it falls squarely on Chinas shoulders.
@both Gazoo and GregTx.
That might be absolutely proven when it has been established that there was sufficient voter fraud for Biden to have lost the election. I know that there are NT members who believe that there is sufficient evidence for both to be established factually.
And this has to do what with the topic?
Like it or not this is Mossad's way of operating.
Also, no one here is shedding 1 damn tear over the Iranian's death- except maybe some pearl clenchers on the left that desperately want to blame Trump for everything.
I could state more; but I seem to be on the mods radar these days.
Nothing.
Evening Buzz..Israel can get in line..The paranoid CCP is at again....No surprise there we rate a mention at the moment seeing Australia is number one on the Chinese hit parade..
China needs to convince their own people that they are blameless; along with the TDS suffering left in the US. They are having a far easier time with the latter because the TDS suffering left blames everything on Trump. The Chinese population is not nearly as gullible.
Ask Tony Blinken
gee, I wonder how much it costs for a mossad hit and if there's such thing as a group rate.
So nobody here would blame any nation in the middle east for what amounts to preventive measures against a future nuclear war?
Israel is the tiny democracy in the middle east, which international organizations, such as the UN, have systematically de-legitimized for simply defending itself. The Obama administration reversed four decades of US policy, by signing on to a consensus document that singled out Israel's possession of nuclear weapons. Israel's nuclear weapons are for deterrence unlike those being sought by Iran. The return of such a hostile administration is most likely what is prompting Israel's preemptive measures.
since when has israel ever admitted to possessing nuclear weapons?
To my knowledge, they never have.
Your point?
They don't have to....it's pretty much common knowledge they have them.
Do you have a problem with that?
I guess the gist of the story is that Iran is, indeed, continuing to develop nuclear weapons. I wonder if Biden will give as much aid and comfort to the enemy as Obama did. Iranian sympathizers at the NYT had this to say.
I like this:
"Seldom has any country demonstrated a similar ability to strike with apparent impunity inside the territory of its fiercest enemy, said Bruce Reidel, a researcher at the Brookings Institution and a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency with experience in Israel.
“It’s unprecedented,” he said. “And it shows no sign of being effectively countered by the Iranians.”
That is a compliment to one of the world's great intelligence agencies.
And to your point:
"Retaliation against Israel or Mr. Netanyahu’s main ally, the United States, would play into the hands of Iran’s enemies in the region, who are seeking “to create a difficult situation,” so Mr. Biden cannot revive that nuclear agreement, Mr. Khoshvaght added."
I'm sure that was part of the reason for the assassination.
Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear, and it knows it."
I might just end it right there - Today's lesson!