All eyes are on Iran to see how they respond to the killing of one of their top scientists. The attack is widely believed to have been carried out by Israel to sabotage a future Biden administration’s efforts to return to diplomacy with Iran. Iranian officials are making it clear that they do not intend to fall into the trap.
“Iran’s scientific and defense policies won’t change because of the assassination of one scientist or general,” Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said in a statement on Sunday. Iran “shouldn’t fall into the trap of linking the assassination to past nuclear negotiations,” he said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made similar comments on Saturday. “Our people are wiser than to fall in the trap of the Zionist regime,” he said. “Iran will surely respond to the martyrdom of our scientist at the proper time.”
In an interview on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said US-Iran relations could improve after the Trump administration comes to an end. “Under Trump’s presidency, Iran and US tensions rose to a 40-year peak. It seems unnecessary for this situation to continue,” Zarif said.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden said he would work with Iran to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal, which President Trump withdrew from in 2018. Both Zarif and Rouhani have said Iran can quickly come into compliance with the deal if the US lifts sanctions.
Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed outside of Tehran on Friday. The assassination came a few weeks after a report said President Trump reviewed options to attack an Iranian nuclear site. Since the report came out, Iran has been cautioning its allies in the region against provoking tensions with the US, hoping to avoid a military confrontation before Biden’s inauguration.
Good for Iran they were never going to fall for an obvious bait while Trump is still in office
Correct me if I am mistaken. Chess was invented in Iran. The US and Israel are genocidal to the core.
I thought it was invented in Egypt?
No, north of Egypt, in Israel 🙂
Egypt sounds possible yet I’m fairly certain both chess and backgammon are Iranian inventions while the other serious board game, Go, comes from China. I’ll check around.
Chess was likely invented in India but it came to the west from Persia, thus the possible confusion. Backgammon seems to have been a Persian game, though.
In short, Iran says” Uncle.” LOL
Would you attack mad dogs with nukes?
Seriously doubt Israel would use nukes against a non-nuke country. It would have the world (other than the US and Europeans) come down on their butt.
As if Israel would be fighting the actual war.
and as if anyone would raise their voice if they used the ultimate weapon …
Sure. “Suicide is painless”.
Gimme liberty or death…
Me too. But it’s easy to say that as an individual. A little different when your talking about the mass carnage that war would produce.
Say “Uncle” today for one brave man. Save all the rhetoric for another day when the little Rogue miniState. Blunders into problems. Hubris is the killer of loudmouth fools.. There are more toôls in the box than bragidicio
Can Iran turn the murder against the murderers? Can it rally revulsion to murder, revulsion to cross border terrorist assassinations?
Not in the US or its mainstream press. That is Israeli occupied territory.
How about the rest of the Iran Deal participants? Probably, and in a big way.
Blow back on Israel could be arranged. Then who has won what?
North Korea isn’t seeking Yankee moderation of their energy industry and nobodies killing their scientists? I wonder why.