Iran is outraged at the recent assassination of its nuclear scientists, but lacks the political leverage to do anything about it diplomatically and the military and intelligence capacity to defend itself.
Tehran urged the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to condemn Tuesday’s assassination which resembled previous killings of Iranian nuclear scientists and which are probably being carried out buy the U.S. and Israel. Tehran has called them terrorist attacks aimed at sabotaging their nuclear program, which all evidence suggests is civilian in nature.
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee asked Ban and the 15-nation council “to condemn, in the strongest terms, these inhumane terrorist acts and to take effective steps towards elimination of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.” But even if the Council did condemn the act, which is unlikely, the U.S. would veto it. Ban’s spokesman Martin Nesirky said Wednesday that he had no immediate comment.
The U.S. denies any role in the murders, while Israel is slightly more open about it. In August, the German newspaper Der Spiegel leaked an admission by an Israeli intelligence officer that Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, was behind the assassinations. And the French newspaper Le Figaro this week reported that Israeli Mossad intelligence agents are operating in Kurdistan, where they are recruiting Iranian exiles to work against the Iranian regime.
Christof Heyns, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said in a statement to Reuters that “the killings are unlawful and should be condemned,” but that “the onus is on the Iranian authorities to investigate what has happened, to make the evidence known and to bring the perpetrators to book.”
But it’s clear Iran has little capability to do that. The Iranian security and intelligence apparatus is lightyears away from that of the U.S. and Israel’s, as evidenced by their inability to put a stop to a succession of their top nuclear scientists. Iran is currently preoccupied with a harsh set of economic sanctions, a covert U.S. campaign of cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, and proxy wars.
So despite the fact that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the U.S. and Israel are involved in a number of these assassinations – and despite the fact that they are illegal under international law – Tehran’s complaints and condemnations will fall on deaf ears due to Iran’s isolation and relative weakness on the world stage.
The U.S. and Israel must be labelled as Rogue Nations and condemned and sanctioned by the rest of the world.
If we don't, we will end up in Armageddon!
The solution for Iran is simple….AN EYE FOR AN EYE
For every Iranian assassinated, take out 10 Zionists and US scientists
Soon it will stop.
I doubt it will stop the US and Israelis killing of Iranians, more likely it would escalate to killing them en masse through massive air strikes.. They'll just trot out their usual line about how the Iranians are carrying out "terrorism", whereas their own assassination of Iranians would be OK, because the US and Israel are "democracies" so that would make it OK.
It's obvious the Israelis are doing this. But how much evidence is there that the Americans are doing anything more than winking and nodding? Is the US actively involved?
Oh come on Dave. Haven't you heard our secretary of state Hillary? I think what it proves is that the Iranian tribal chiefs who are really to blame have state-of-the-art assasination weapons of individual destruction that they can use at will. And lots of oil money. And George Bush was right, but he just had the slightly wrong country. Just confused an "N" for a "Q"
John,
you are mistaken, Iran can do plenty about it. Not diplomatically, and definitely not militarily, but iran could strike in kind against the US or Israel at any time or any place.
The reason they do not is because that is exactly what the US and Israel want. They want to provoke iran into doing something foolish that they can plaster all over our TV screens.
They tried to provoke Iran into Kicking out the IAEA so they could point the finger at Iran and say "SEE< THEY ARE HIDING SOMETHING"…the Iranians did not take the bait as Saddam did.
Now they want to provoke Iran into a war by making it look as if Iran is the aggressor. Again, the Iranians will not take the bait.
Agree with you baz. If the Iranians wanted to, they could make things very difficult for Israel, through Hezbollah, possibly Hamas. Iran is right not to take the bait, it's just what Obama, Clinton, Israel wants.
These murders of Iranians scientists, and western terrorism in Iran, are despicable. What is even worse is the silence and complicity of Sarkozy, Merkel, Cameron etc.
Saddam did not take the bait either. Prior to the invasion in 2003, it was the US who told the IAEA it could not guarantee the safety of the inspectors who were in Iraq once the war started. So the IAEA pulled their group out, and the US then claimed Saddam threw them out. It was amazing how many Americans still believe that Saddam threw the inspectors out.
thank you! i had begun to fear that i had dreamed a year of research.
What exactly is the definition of 'terrorist' or terroism'? Would the outright call by two Congress members for the assassination of Iranian officials on the floor of the U.S. Congress–of all the places–qualify for that definition?
I think Baz is right. The hypocritical imperialist states (US, UK and much of the EU) and the rogue state of Israel would quickly use their control of the media to paint Iran in the darkest terms and hence create a pretext for a Western launched war of aggression on Iran. Iran is caught between a rock and a hard place….unless they are extremely clever about their retaliation, which is possible.
"The Iranian security and intelligence apparatus is lightyears away from that of the U.S. and Israel’s, as evidenced by their inability to put a stop to a succession of their top nuclear scientists."
Didn't the Iranians just roll up the CIA spy network in Iran (not the ex-marine who has been sentenced to death). Maybe that's why the US government is so sure that they weren't involved
Right! That's the sentence that casts a pall of doubt over the whole essay. We have zero assets in Iran. Mossad no doubt has plenty. And what equivalent to targeted assassination have we ever halted in the US?
Israel's days as a terrorist state are numbered. It will make the fatal mistake of attacking Iran, and no one will shed a tear at the wrath that will follow. Zionism is Nazism, and must be stopped period.
Textbook definition of terrorism.
Yet all of this and Iran STILL does not declare war against the US. It shows how anti-war Iran really is and how cowardly the regime is. The Ayatollahs are not protecting their people and they should respond to these terror attacks immediately. Iran needs to hurry up and attack the US or Israel. Otherwise they might risk being overthrown themselves.
The US and the bandit state are winning this covert war. Iran just needs to grow some balls and declare war! The US is not gonna stop and it's only gonna get worse. I mean how much can the Iranian regime take before A.) being overthrown by their own people in a bloody coup, or B.) before they finally close the strait of hormuz and declare war on the US?
Israel has a short memory.They forget when they were plagued with suicide bombers. It could happen again! I don't care how good their security is.This is the only way they can fight Iran. If Iran was a 'cakewalk" the US and Israel would haved attacked Iran long ago.
I've been reading a lot about how the new sanctions against the Iranian central bank are pushing the Iranians to blockade the Straits of Hormuz. If the West stops Iran from exporting oil (via not allowing companies to interact with their central bank), then it will be as if the Straits are already closed from the Iranian perspective. This means that soon it will be rational for the Iranians to mine and blockade the Straits–thus ensuring military conflict.
As this article points out, the Iranian are lightyears behind the US/Israel on police state methods (ie, full control/knowledge of what happens within its borders). The quickest way to consolidate power and transform a society into a police state is through war.
It seems to me that everything the West does pushes the Iranians into rationally deciding to open military conflict. It is [soon to be] in their interest on both levels of the two level game. This is the normal result of interventionist policy.
Mossad killed J.F.K and Obama knows what to do, do as he is told.