A top Iranian scientist was assassinated near Tehran in an ambush on Friday, Iranian state media first reported. Israel has previously alleged the scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, headed an Iranian military nuclear program.
In a statement, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the attack and said there are “serious indications” of an Israeli role in the assassination. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out Fakhrizadeh at a news conference and said, “remember that name.”
“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Zarif wrote on Twitter.
The New York Times cited three anonymous officials who said Israel was behind Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
Fakhrizadeh purportedly headed Iran’s Amad Project, a nuclear program the US and Israel claimed was a military operation. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and US intelligence, the Amad Project was halted in 2003.
Israel is believed to be responsible for a series of assassinations of Iranian scientists that mainly took place between 2010 and 2012. While Israel has not officially acknowledged its role, Israeli officials have hinted that they were behind the killings. So far, Israeli officials have not commented on Fakhrizadeh’s death.
The killing comes at a time of heightened tensions in the region. Earlier this month, reports said President Trump reviewed options to strike an Iranian nuclear site. Since then, Israel has leaked stories about their preparedness for a US attack on Iran, and there has been an uptick in Israeli airstrikes against what they call Iranian linked targets in Syria.
For their part, Iran is urging its allies in the region to exercise caution, hoping to avoid a military confrontation with the US before Trump is out of office.
Both the Israelis and the Trump administration are hoping to sabotage a future Biden administration’s efforts to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Trump reviewed options to bomb Iran after the IAEA this week reported Iran was further violating the JCPOA.
Since the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, Iran has gradually violated some limitations of the deal to gain leverage for future negotiations. All the violations are minor and easily reversible, but the Trump administration and Israel are using the IAEA report to hype the threat of Iran’s nuclear program.
A report from Middle East Eye published Friday says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to agree to an attack on an Iranian nuclear facility during a secret meeting on Sunday.
And what influenced the present regimes public notice to not enter any conflict with US until after Trump is gone?
One would think that their Intelligence and State Department would know the ifs and buts of, lets not lie it is not a Biden Presidency, but a Harris and her mentors , who and what the character of Democratic replacements actions in future will be, for nothing looks good in their designs upon Iran leadership.
If Irans power brokers are using it as a means to control own peoples criticism of their inability to mitigate. Their inaction as Israel/ NATO/US kill and try to destroy them now that would seem plausable.
To not get their nations infrastructure destroyed, much like IRAQ. 12 year mini and prewar inasion, that seems plausable.
Clutching at straws and praying like hell by leasrrship is slowly destroying Iran, in ways much like situation of Palestinians tough talk as they bury their dead, widows weeping.
Iran cannot ever become militarily or economicly safe from foreign powers aggression without having a capable does not need be massive nuclear defense force, never.
They have no reliable allies to stem attacks only have economic connections with China and Russia who have own self interest and neither would jeaprodize own economys or homelands by an actual military confrontation with US/Isreal/NATO.
Whats left for them, to act like whipped puppies. With tails between legs who snarl as they slink away from their masters.
In the 1990’s,there was a HOPE of Peace during the Oslo negotiations. Iran opposed any negotiations what so ever. Iran committed several atrocities in Argentina, blowing up an embassy and a civilian cultural center.Lurid hate cartoons are derigeur in the Iranian press. Like the USSR,Iran is a country that also is as war against its own people.
I understand Iran’s resentment over the imposition of the Shah by the west. The USSR had plans to conquer Iran in 1980-Jimmy Carter saved them.
If Iran wanted peace, let them behave peacefully-extend even a token hand of friendship to your enemies, and disband her terrorist armies.
u despicable liar—the Argentine bombing has never been tied to Iran; Israeli bombings of Iraq, Syria, etc are admitted
This can’t finally end until Iran has enough nuclear weapons that others dare not do it. That is a commentary on the people who would dominate the region around Iran, not a commentary on Iran.
So the US would be better off, safer from wars including self-inflicted wars, if Iran would just get those bombs and delivery system. Perhaps Pakistan, China, or Russia could just step in and sell them some, a few dozen, enough to wipe out Israel if they start something.
Then this would end, and there is no other end in sight.
Many believe Iran has already had nuclear tipped warheads for a very long time… decades… this isn’t about their nuclear program, it’s about regime change.
Who has tested the nukes in their nuclear warheads?
Even our nuclear intelligence only learned that N. Korea could assemble a nuclear arsenal because of its tests.
Intelligence is useless on the basis of beliefs.
And who are the many you anonymously cite?
But yes, this is about regime change
It goes back to the early 90s when the SU broke up. Not a lot about it on the internet today. here’s one link. There is also a DPRK possibility. https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/iran-said-obtain-four-nuclear-bombs-cis-republic/
“Good bit of information>I would like to know if nukes go bad without advanced maintenance.
47-60% of American adults believe in ghosts per recent studies; I could care less what stupidities Americans believe
For Israel, it’s not about domination. It’s about survival.
Since the Revolution, Iran has been threatening to destroy Israel. Iranian nukes would make that possible.
Bullshit !!
and Israel needs to be defenestrated, pronto!
It is apparent that you use words that you do not understand-how do you throw a nation out of a window? And you wonder why Israelis are ruthless, when surrounded by people who think like you.
finally u admit Israelis barbaric, ruthless
something they learned very well from the Czars and Stalinists
They were in power under the Bolsheviks
Lenin was neither a Jew,Israeli, or Zionist. The Red army committed less pogroms that the White army of the nobility.
Lenin wasn’t the only commie, just the top dog.
Exploiting the myth that the Jews caused the Russian revolution
Ruthless? Is that why, according to the post Gaza Massacre, it was documented that the vaunted IDF used civilians, including women and kids as shields, to face the oppressed Gazans?
how much does CIA pay?
It’s survival for every nation, not just Israel.
Funny how so called ” antiwar” advocates call for wiping out one particular country with a small population, surrounded by much more populous, hostile neighborsA country whose people have been subjected to repeated genocides. When Iran acquires nukes, they will use them as cover for a prolonged war of attrition against a much smaller country that shares no borders with her. It is a miracle that nukes have not been used since 1945, and you want to promote the condition for a totally justified Israeli nuclear first strike.
I did not call for wiping out anybody. However, lying warmongers are always inventing such calls to justify their own bloodthirsty criminal desires.
The words “wipe out Israel” clearly appear in your comment. Who, then, is the warmonger?
“wipe out Israel if they start something” You know, self defense.
Soooo-the big antiwar pacifist, expert in all fields, says wiping people out is OK, as long as they are Israelis. So your law of war call for total genocide against any supposed transgressor. No doubt you watch The Day the earth Stood still-a race of just leftist robots will destroy any transgressor.It is you who will decide who should be destroyed-a “weigher of souls”It is Iran who speaks of destroying Israel-in your book thats OK
Can you read? Or do you only understand self defense when it’s employed by Israel? Like shooting children or people in wheelchairs. And I never claimed to be an expert at anything. I only said I comment on other articles other than articles that have “Israel” in the headlines. I notice you and fellow Hasbara troll, johnson 11b, showed up again to earn your shekels.
Just block this Hasbara criminal troll.
Upper right hand corner next to his name; down arrow menu; click “block user”; and be done with it.
Waste no more time.
Just trying to make him earn his money.
Arab terrorists have never hesitated to kill children.As for shooting people in wheelchairs,-remember the Achille Lauro attack.
And if this was about what Arab terrorists have/had done, then that would be relevant.
are u stupid? anti-war is not equivalent to pacifism
Thomason is being cute, but everyone knows what he means
Yes, everyone that reads his comments on a regular basis knows what he means. You, not so much.
Germany claimed that it was invaded by Poland.People always claim the other guy started it.Where have you been?
That is just plain stupid and is completely irrelevant to what I said.
It is always possible to claim the other gyt started it
u immoral fascist—pathetic
No one has called for wiping out any country, but the country you are referring to doesn’t have to be the most belligerent of all.
Iran does not appear to desire nuclear weapons. Pursuing their nuclear program seems more out of pride and to needle opponents.
There is the military concept of ‘a threat in being’; once capable of nuclear power, Iran theoretically has the bomb. That’s still a long way from making one, but nuclear reactors can become nasty poison pills to a violent takeover or regime change.
Of course, all Iran will really have on realization is an incredibly expensive way to boil water, but then, they probably don’t have to pay top dollar for their scientists and techs.
Problem is Iran is led by goofballs like Rouhani and Javed Zarif when they need an Ahmadnejad. The Pakis will not lift a finger to help because like the other Muslim countries they are corrupt through and through. In response to this murder, Iran will pull a Bashar Al-Assad, which is to hunker down and do nothing except issue press releases.
One needs to understand Muslims are all talk and none to bright. Allah has willed that for them. Let them sleep for another 700 years.
To paraphrase the Prophet: Islam began as a strange religion and it will become strange again. Therefore blessed are the strangers.
He also said the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of a martyr. But idiot Muslims prefer martyrs to scholars.
And he also said, heaven lies at the feet of the mother. But Muslims prefer to keep their women barefoot and pregnant.
No further proof is necessary to demonstrate their stupidity.
And yet, I would be the first to admit that at one time, the Arab would was advanced in many ways. They still produce excellent physicians and surgeons. Ahmadnejad was a brilliant engineering student who made a total fool of himself by openly speaking of Iran’s genocidal plans. The long term Iranian leaders are much shrewder, and dissimulate.
Being against Israel makes them “un-advanced”?
Straw man argument, Learn to read.
Hayfield logic – learn to comprehend what you read.
I guess they saw what happened to Khadafy and Saddam, and what was intended for Assad.
Exactly.
Putin should fly in a couple dozen mobile nuke systems and high-end air-defense systems to both Iran and Syria, to be manned and controlled by Russia. Credible deterrence, to put an end to this nonsense.
He should do this in particular in light of the fact that the Neocons/Zionists maintain a thousand-year-long burning hatred for the Russians, and have in modern times been aggressively seeking to “tighten the noose”, using their subversion of the US to target Russia for “regime change.”
1.Neocons/Zionists have not existed for a thousand years.
2.It was the Russians who persecuted the Jews, and not vice versa.
3.You spend too much time reading the Protocols of the Learned Elders
There were no Neocons or Zionists 1,000 years ago.It was the Russians who persecuted Jews, not vice versa.You live in a twisted world
Who perpetuated the Pogroms? Russians or zionists?
Russian Jews. Next? Who is carrying on the apartheid/settler rampages in Israel? Russians or zionists?
Off the wall,man
Russian Jews comited pogroms against themselves. Get a life.
This is outrageous. There are plenty nuclear scientists around the world and as a New Zealander I am proud Lord Rutherford was one of the first.
Unlike Israel Iran has not constructed a nuclear bomb. If being a nuclear scientist is a crime why hasn’t Israel locked up their own.
This killing will legitimize tit for tat reaction so that unsuspecting scientists from various countries will be targeted. Its a despicable act and a very horrible crime.
“Outrageous”-HA!. This man was not a man of peace, he knew what he was doing was going to cost the lives of millions of people-got what he deserved.
The supposed weapons program was halted in 2003. When did Israel halt theirs?
Iran has many secret nuclear sites-shut one down,open ten others.
despicable liar
Russia today is badly infected by fascism
Israel today is a lost cause with fascism. That, coupled with expansionism, is bad for peace-lovers.
HA – neither are Israel’s weapons scientists then, so you’d be fine with Iran assassinating them, as enemy combatants?
If they could, they would
…and you would be so understanding of that as a strategic ploy? You would never think of retribution?
The U235 enrichment has demonstrated that Iran’s nuclear program has long ago moved away from laboratory science into the realm of technology.
When one nation in an area goes nuclear weapons (Israel), it follows that others want the same deterrence so as to not be bullied by the nuclear power.
Saudi Arabia and the gulf states are more concerned with Iran than Israel, and priapistic Ergoyan also agitates. The difference is that Israe lnever threatened to nuke anyone.
So?
I find it interesting that the killing of an Iranian scientist brings no condemnation from the West, but if it were an Israeli killed they’d be calling it terrorism and vowing revenge.
He lived by the sword-he died by the sword.
So when is Bibi going to meet Yahweh?
Hopefully, you and I and Bibi will meet the divine one day
Not the angry god Yahweh.
To make you happy, we will meet the god who spreads his religion by force
That would be the god of Moshe.
The Crusades were perpetrated by Christians-the streets of Jerusalem ran red with the blood of Muslims and Jews.
Crusades?
At least Yahweh did not instruct his people to convert others, especially by force .Islam is a prosthelytizing religion
No Yahweh just instructed his people to kill all the Canaanites, including the beasts of the field, so the Israelites could take their land.
1.No one practices biblical Judaism, any more than Christians practice biblical Christianity. I wish that they did
2.The Israelites may indeed have been the Cannanites.
3.all of us displaced the,Neanderthals,probably by evicting the, or killing and eating them.
At the rapture. With Pompeo, Bolton, Hillary and the rest of the neocons. 😜
you fascist—your propaganda is despicable
And you call others fascist! HA!
There is no “sword”:
(1) He was a civilian scientist.
(2) we and Israel are not at war with Iran.
(3) thus, if Israel indeed did this, they committed a very serious crime against peace and the perpetrators should be brought to justice.
Civilian scientists routinely work on weapons projects.Unfortunately, Iran and Israel are in the early stages of war. When was Arafat and his ilk brought to Justice.
I guess this means that sooner or later it will be America’s turn to reap the consequences of living and dying by the sword. 🤔
We wasted our energies,live’s and treasure. That certainly does mean that Chinese hegemony will be any better-they will strip Africa of every bit of arable land and metal and leave its people to wither and starve.
Don’t you ever run out of enemies to fuel the Complex?
Unfortunately, wars have always been with us, and will continue until Earth is barren as Mars.
Oh Thank God – no runaway greenhouse effect.
What on earth are you talking about-get a life.
Does that “truism”-slash-justification apply to Israel as well, Jacob?
Be careful what you wish for.
Peace is most desirable, but living by the sword is better than being exterminated.
How about living by a knife, would that be sufficient/
So the Japanese, by your logic, should have assassinated Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller, and you’d have been morally find with that. Or more currently, you’d be just find and dandy with Israeli nuclear scientists getting wasted because they have, in your words, lived by the sword. “sword” – so archaic.
Unfortunately, the world is a dangerous place, and anyone one will fight to survive
oh I see, so you have understood and condoned that, if Japan or Germany had killed those people.
In WW II, the lines between good and evil were quite clear. Poland did not invade Germany,China did not invade Japan. Where were you in high school?
Iran says it wants Israel erased from the pages of history. Thousands of Iranian chant “Death to Israel!” “Death to Israel!” is printed on Iranian missiles. Iran has boasted that it helped Hezbollah & Hamas kill Israelis. Iran has offered to help anyone willing to attack Israel. That’s war mongering!
Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.
It can’t get any sicker than that…… I hope.
This is a propaganda film, could have been made in Syria or Iran.Do you know whose children those are? Could be anybodies-and the captioning is surely hate speech propaganda. In this film: “the Jews hate first”-pure hate speech
More propaganda?
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=picture+of+idf+soldier+with+t-shirt+with+the+slogan+%221+shot+2+kills%22&qpvt=Picture+of+IDF+soldier+with+T-shirt+with+the+slogan+%221+shot+2+Kills%22&fo
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-t-shirts-joke-about-killing-arabs/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5598681/Israeli-soldiers-CHEER-sniper-kills-unarmed-Palestinian-protester-video.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-t-shirts-joke-about-killing-arabs/
If you had the decency and intellect to read what you posted, the filmincludes-“the Jews always hate first”.So you posted hate speech and think that are honorable and wise.
That doesn’t change my point. And that’s what you consider “hate speech”?
When you state that people of a particular religion “always hate”
That isn’t hate speech you moron. Saying someone “hates first” is NOT hate speech it’s a god damn opinion. Jesus, you are dense. And yes that IS name calling. You deserve it.
When you say that people of a particular race, religion, or nationality have a particular bad behaviour-that is hateful. This group are all gangsters, that group are alcoholics,ect ect It was grossly inappropriate, for you to post such trash-can’t you read?
So if a group of Jews say that Muslims “hate first”, would that be hate speech? And would they then be “gangsters” and “alcoholics”? And would the Jews calling Palestinians “cockroaches” qualify?
Wiki antisemitic cartoons and see how many of them are of middle eastern origin-but thats fine with you
No, it isn’t fine with me, I’m not an anti-Semite. My original reply was to johnson11b’s copy and paste. I only posted those things to show him that the Israeli’s are just as guilty of the things he accuses Israel’s enemies of doing.
stop conflating the current Israel regime with Judaism. Just because a government (secular at that, they say), is peopled by a certain religion, does not exempt that government from rightful criticism. After all, they claim they are a “western style democracy”.
Hate builds hate, which builds more hate.Take a look at the hate cartoons published in the Arab media Or in this very video you have posted-“The Jews Hate first”-you posted hate propaganda
as evidence to support your beliefs..Oh, but thats OK, because third world peoples are always right.
This video that you have posted uses the phrase “The Jews Hate first”. S you have posted a hate video-but thats OK, because in your world view, third world people can do no wrong. Hate builds hate, which build more hate.
This is a propaganda film. full of hate speech against Jews, that you posted. Very bright!
That’s 4 times you said the same thing. Still doesn’t change my point.
With slow people, reinforcement is necessary
Or your hasbara material needs updating.
What a load of shit..
CIA propaganda
Iran is unlikely to publicly advertise who their top scientists are anymore, anyway.
The assassination is still the act of a rogue nation using survival as a pretext for pre-emptive aggression as sport.
Realistically, there is no way to really stop Iran from going nuclear if they really want to. Yet they haven’t even built a nuke test facility, let alone the bomb itself.
So you think that war is a “sport”?This is the sort of jockeying that preceded both world wars
Yes, and the wrong side won.
So then you wish Germany had won. Very sad. Because you have a beef with some Jews, you wish that all the Jews on Earth had been killed.
So you support Hitler’s genocide, and you wonder why Israelis are tough
From what I can tell, Solly is into hard social justice, not genocide and wars of aggression.
Just read what the man said-the wrong side won during both world wars.
Well, the U.S. won WWI and WWII, but should have stayed out of both.
Without U.S. intervention in WWI, Great Britain and France would have had to come to an equitable truce with Germany, likely precluding the extreme anit-German Treaty of Versailles, and resultant Holocaust and WWII. Post WWI, German Jews and communists were viciously scapegoated for that loss and the German populace rallied for vengeance.
WWII, would have ended with Russia crushing NAZI Germany and sweeping across Europe, but likely leaving Western Europe to Western Europe and only holding onto their Soviet buffer states as they did when they removed Japan from China and Korea.
Given the prominent role of Jews in the Soviet Union, its not likely Germany’s anti-Semitism would have been overlooked nor German war criminals welcomed into the postwar Soviet security apparatus the way they were into NATO and the United States.
Russia generally has the sense to know what they can realistically hold. The U.S., especially as Europe’s attack dog, not so much.
WWI was none of our business whatsoever and Woodrow Wilson ran for President on the platform of not getting involved. If we hadn’t intervened, there would have been a truce and Nazi Germany would never have arisen
The US was largely a country ruled by Anglo-Saxons such as yourself, they favored Britain.
For some reason I can’t get an answer to stay posted.
I can’t speak for Solly, let me be clear on that. this is my position, but shared by many.
Corrupt Western political-financial elites won the World Wars. Everyone else lost, including the putative nation-state ‘winners’.
China and Korea got out from under genocidal occupation by the Japanese. Western Europe was no longer occupied by Fascist Germany. Europe’s colonies in Asia and Africa found their rulers weakened, and were able to secure liberation.
Sorry for the delayed response. I thought they’d pull that reply too.
The Soviet liberation of Chinese Manchuria and Korea is not hidden history, just under-celebrated as are most Soviet/Russian accomplishments during WWII. The result being, a consistent popular Western and elite underestimation of Russian capability and resolve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War
The Soviet Far East Command removed the Japanese from Manchuria, Korea, and invaded and holds to this day the northern Japanese Kuril Islands. The Chinese were still divided and in a state of civil war, no match for the technologically superior Japanese. The Koreans, had been essentially Chinese protectorate given up to the Japanese, and were also unable to stand up fr themselves without Russian help.
This set the stage for Mao’s eventual takeover of China, Korean partition into north and south, and the Korean war.
Sorry for the delayed response. I thought they’d pull that reply too.
The Soviet liberation of Chinese Manchuria and Korea is not hidden history, just under-celebrated as are most Soviet/Russian accomplishments during WWII.
The result being, a consistent popular Western and elite underestimation of Russian capability and resolve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War
The Soviet Far East Command removed the Japanese from Manchuria, Korea, and invaded and holds to this day the northern Japanese Kuril Islands. The Chinese were still divided in a state of civil war, no match for the technologically superior Japanese. The Korean Kingdom, had been essentially Chinese protectorate given up to the Japanese, and were also unable to stand up for themselves without Russian help.
This set the stage for Mao’s eventual takeover of China, Korean partition into north and south, and the Korean war.
The man stated that the wrong side won WWII. In other words the axis powers should have won. Genocide against Chinese, slaves,Jews, Gypsies
Churchill said “We killed the wrong pig.”
Churchill also dropped poison gas on defenseless people-no doubt he was your hero. Purge yourself of your obsession with Jews and communists-neither of whom rule the world
Regardless of what Solly thinks, the U.S. won WWI and WWII, but should have entered neither war.
WWI would likely have ended in a more equitable truce between the Allies and Germany, likely precluding the Holocaust and WWII.
Post WWI German arch nationalists blamed the Jews and communists for that loss and stoked the desire for revenge.
WWII without U.S. involvement would have ended with the Soviets taking down Nazi Germany and possibly Fascist Japan as well. After which, odds are, they would likely then retreat back behind their primary buffer states.
The U.S. recruited many former Nazi officials into the NATO and U.S. security apparatus. The Soviets would have shot them all.
The old victimhood meme/excuse again?
No, war is for keeps far deadlier than sport.
However, most nations that engage in wars and acts of kinetic aggression, are led by cosseted elites so removed from the carnage they presume to treat war as human blood sport.
or they want to promote their own financial interests
Well, you are aware that sport is waged for money right?
Well, you are aware that serious sport is waged for serious money, right?
Adds to the fun.
CIA as usual
It is clear that this Jake/Jacob person is an enthusiastic Hasbarist accomplice to criminal Zionism . As nothing is to be gained by engaging with him, I suggest blocking him immediately. He will then tire of the lack of “attention” to his Zio-advocacy, and seek out more fertile fields for his “heroic” self-stroking.
Cancel culture should be cancelled.
Jake will be dealt with according to the soundness of his facts and arguments, and has not done anything to detract from honest debate of his positions.
Imagine the response if the head of Israel’s nuclear ***weapon*** program had been murdered by Iran. All the world leaders who are silent today – including Putin, bin Salman, the Pope, Xi – would be weeping, tearing their clothes and threatening vengeance.
no one would care
While Israel may indeed be behind this, as part of a very short-term thinking stunt by Nuttyyahoo to get the last ounces of benefit out of Trump (never thinking that the long term enmity of an eighty-million person neighbor is a terrible burden for its future generations), I would suggest antiwarriors not get locked into certainty.
When dealing with issues involving Iran, Israel, Arab nations, terrorists like the MEK, etc. etc. nothing is certain. Many different actors with varying motivations may be acting, hoping for disproportionate responses that lead to greater conflict. True peace lovers should seek facts and reserve early judgment.
Suspected? You gotta be kidding. That’s dancing around the 99% chance they did it, and is like “the world” turning a blind eye to Israel’s massive nuclear arsenal beause, “they have never confirmed”.
Yet Iran, that doesn’t have nukes, is always portrayed as the big troublemaker. Make the Middle East nuclear weapons free, and sanction Israel until they get rid of their nuclear arsenal that is held in reserve to bully ALL of their neighbors and a good share of the populations they control – West Bank and Gaza.
Israel and her stans are really like the abusive husband of the Middle East. “Look what you made me do!”
One senior scientist’s murder will not force Iran to act reckless. They’ll wait for the Biden administration to get another. At this point they might as well carry out a strike directly on Iran if they don’t want another JCPOA.
Iran says it wants Israel erased from the pages of history. Thousands of Iranian chant “Death to Israel!” “Death to Israel!” is printed on Iranian missiles. Iran has boasted that it helped Hezbollah & Hamas kill Israelis. Iran has offered to help anyone willing to attack Israel. That’s war mongering!
Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.