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WASHINGTON The assassination of the scientist who led Irans pursuit of a nuclear weapon for the past two decades threatens to cripple President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.s effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal before he can even begin his diplomacy with Tehran.
And that may well have been a main goal of the operation.
Intelligence officials say there is little doubt that Israel was behind the killing it had all the hallmarks of a precisely timed operation by Mossad, the countrys spy agency. And the Israelis have done nothing to dispel that view. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long identified Iran as an existential threat, and named the assassinated scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, as national enemy No. 1, capable of building a weapon that could threaten a country of eight million in a single blast.
But Mr. Netanyahu also has a second agenda.
There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement, he declared shortly after it became clear that Mr. Biden who has proposed exactly that would be the next president.
Mr. Netanyahu believes a covert bomb program is continuing, until yesterday under Mr. Fakhrizadehs leadership, and would be unconstrained after 2030, when the nuclear accords restraints on Tehrans ability to produce as much nuclear fuel as it wants expires. To critics of the deal, that is its fatal flaw.
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And the program will continue because one thing Iran has learned is that the word of the U.S. can't be trusted long term. Furthermore Trump getting kissy kissy with Kim Jong Un has proven that if they want respect from the U.S. it helps to be a nation with Nuclear weapons.
The U.S. is not going to war with Iran no matter how much Bibi and the Domionists want it.
2naSalit
(86,039 posts)I'm sure there are other reasons as well but that would be one of them.
RockRaven
(14,782 posts)StClone
(11,676 posts)Is prior Trump being out of office. Disgusting self-interest protection excuse by Israeli hardliners who could inflame the region and engulf the world. Iran and Israel better find a manageable way to get along as sooner or later such an act will end in mutual destruction.