Monday, November 30, 2020

The Assassination Of Iran's Top Nuclear Scientist Exposes Its Vulnerabilities To Respond

 


The raid alone was brazen enough. A team of Israeli commandos with high-powered torches blasted their way into a vault of a heavily guarded warehouse deep in Iran and made off before dawn with 5,000 pages of top secret papers on the country’s nuclear program. 

Then in a television broadcast a few weeks later, in April 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited the contents of the pilfered documents and coyly hinted at equally bold operations that were already being planned. 

“Remember that name,” he said as he singled out the scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the captain of Iran’s covert attempts to assemble a nuclear weapon. 

Now Mr. Fakhrizadeh has become the latest casualty in an escalating campaign of audacious covert attacks seemingly designed to torment Iranian leaders with reminders of their weakness. The operations are confronting Tehran with an agonizing choice between embracing the demands of hard-liners for swift retaliation, or attempting to make a fresh start with the less implacably hostile administration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. 

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WNU Editor: The Iranian leadership are not the only ones who feel that they are at risk .... Hezbollah chief said to hunker down amid fears he could be targeted by Israel (Times of Israel).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"According to Fars, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was on his way with his wife to a vacation in their home in the outskirts of Tehran, findings of an Iranian investigation have shown.

The two drove in a convoy of four vehicles in total, three belonging to security personnel. At one point, the vehicle that led the convoy drove ahead in order to conduct a routine checkup of Fakhrizadeh’s home.

This was when bullets flew toward the vehicle of Fakhrizadeh, prompting him to a halt. Fakhrizadeh got out of the car after assuming he hit an object on the road or that there was some problem with the engine.

When he was out in the open, an unmanned Nissan vehicle — which stood some 500 feet away — opened fire at the scientist.

The investigation concluded that a remotely controlled machine gun was installed in the Nissan vehicle, and that Fakhrizadeh was hit by three bullets, one hitting him in the spine.

Several seconds after the hit the firing vehicle exploded in order not to leave any evidence behind, according to the report. The whole operation took three minutes and did not involve any assassins, Fars reported."

So that is the rewrite by the Tehran branch of the Ministry of Truth. Now we 'know' none of the attackers were captured. The surviving security detail people will have to recant. They can blame their wounds for their poor memory and previous statements. If they are given a chance. If they are not airbrushed.