The West's Covert War Against Iran Has Begun

The War With Iran Has Already Begun -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

It might not seem like it, but the West has already launched its campaign to prevent Iran building an atom bomb. This is not a conventional war of the type we have recently experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the contrary, rather than using thousands of troops and state-of-the-art weaponry to achieve our goals, the West is now waging a sophisticated campaign where it relies on its wits and ingenuity rather than brute force.

The assassination of yet another Iranian nuclear scientist – the fourth in two years – is just one example of how this war is being waged. There is little doubt that the carefully executed plot to kill Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who worked at Iran's controversial Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was the work of a Western intelligence agency – most likely Israel's Mossad intelligence service.

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My Comment: A covert war against Iran has one drawback .... blow back from the mullahs in Iran. While the Iranians have a long history of using proxy groups like Hezbollah to commit terror attacks, I suspect that they are now planning and positioning themselves to strike back (even more) .... a quid pro quo that they feel they must now respond to in order to not lose face and show weakness to their political opponents in Iran. I suspect that the West knows this .... hence the now positioning of US aircraft strike groups off Iran.