President Trump’s envoy for Iran and Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, defended the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an interview with The Times of Israel last week.
In the interview, which was published on Monday, Abrams defended a common criticism of assassinations inside Iran. Critics argue that the officials killed are replaceable and that the targeted killings do nothing but escalate tensions.
“I think it’s a mistake to believe that Iranian officials… are interchangeable cogs in a machine who have no personal aspects that are irreplaceable,” he said. In defending targeted killings, Abrams cited the US assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq.
Although it has not been officially confirmed by Israel, there is little doubt that Israel was behind Fakhrizadeh’s killing. According to The Times of Israel, Abrams was careful not to attribute the assassination to Israel, but did say, “Israel has the right to defend itself.”
Abrams fed into the Israeli narrative that Fakhrizadeh was the mastermind behind Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program. “He was the main organizer of this program, and the main intermediary between the nuclear weapons program and the top leadership of the country,” he said. “So I do think that his departure from that position will slow them down.”
In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented documents he claimed were obtained in Iran by Mossad that said Iran was operating a secret nuclear weapons program headed by Fakhrizadeh.
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter demonstrated in a report that the documents Netanyahu presented were likely fabrications. For example, there was no evidence to show the documents were genuine, and they were missing markings from the relevant Iranian agencies.
In another report, Porter documented how Israel carried out a propaganda campaign that started in the early 1990s to portray Fakhrizadeh as the head of a secret nuclear weapons program.
Too bad Abrams isn’t in the slam where he belongs.
a convicted felon justifying murder—amerikan morality on display
A gangster in charge of diplomatic affairs between the US, Iran and Venezuela. What could possibly go wrong?
We have, and have had, gangsters at the very apex of American power and position.
Of all the loathsome critters infesting the imperial cadre this manager of the El Salvador death squads for Reagan’s Central America War is probably my hands down winner, epitomizing for me the naked putrescent obscenity of US-Israel power.
Even just reading this piece makes me feel dirty.
Wish someone would assassinate that POS.
A bullet between Abrams’ eyes is, according to Abrams’ logic, Iran having the right to self defense.
See how he tries to set the narrative: the most important question is whether the action was effective, not whether it was moral, just, or legal. Truly disgusting.
Even by that standard, he is wrong, and he glories in being wrong because he wants to be wrong. He wants war, not success at his alleged goal.
How do you stop him? How does one stop a serial rapist or recidivist mass murderer ?
Nothing surprising here-abrams just another murdering ghoul working for pompass-abrams has a long history of defending murdering thugs going back to his lying about Latin American massacres.
” US Iran Envoy ”
Nay the hit man.
“I think it’s a mistake to believe that Iranian officials… are interchangeable cogs in a machine who have no personal aspects that are irreplaceable”
He’s right. Just using himself as an example. Although he is a rare piece of shit that only comes down the poop shoot of life only once every so often, there are still plenty of turds in waiting.
Elliot Abrams defends murder and lies. How is that a surprise? It is only what sent him to jail, what he was pardoned for doing, and what he has done ever since.
The oldest canard about Israel = “right to defend itself”. As if other countries don’t, but only Israel does. Strange defense, bombing neighboring countries, and assassinating scientists with impunity
This is unbelievable American arrogance, to so blithely talk about the murder of a person, and the pos gets away with it. I hope that this guy suffers the same fate, and I hope his family will “understand”.