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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 09:23 PM Nov 2020

Assassination Threatens Fate of Iran Nuclear Deal

WASHINGTON — The assassination of the scientist who led Iran’s 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 country’s 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. Fakhrizadeh’s leadership, and would be unconstrained after 2030, when the nuclear accord’s restraints on Tehran’s ability to produce as much nuclear fuel as it wants expires. To critics of the deal, that is its fatal flaw.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/assassination-threatens-fate-of-iran-nuclear-deal/ar-BB1brFfS?li=BBnb7Kz

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.

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Assassination Threatens Fate of Iran Nuclear Deal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
That's one reason why he was killed... 2naSalit Nov 2020 #1
Primary motivation behind the killing, probably. RockRaven Nov 2020 #2
Israeli style assassination and the timing StClone Nov 2020 #3

2naSalit

(86,039 posts)
1. That's one reason why he was killed...
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 09:28 PM
Nov 2020

I'm sure there are other reasons as well but that would be one of them.

StClone

(11,676 posts)
3. Israeli style assassination and the timing
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 10:36 PM
Nov 2020

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.

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