Top Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated, Probably by Israel Using the MEK Terrorist Cult
The point is to ratchet up tension that would make a return to Obama's nuclear deal impossible
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of Iran's most important nuclear officials, has been assassinated in Tehran. This is what we know /THREAD/:
1. Israel has assassinated numerous Iranian nuclear scientists in the past but have never been able to get to the highly protected Fakhrizadeh.
>> pic.twitter.com/gThTuCW2Ik— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
2. Some Iranian reports claim it was a suicide attack, but the bullet holes in Fakhrizadeh’s car cast some doubt on that.
3. If it was a suicide bomb, then that reduces the likelihood of Israeli operatives carrying out the attack.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
4. Israel has, however, used operatives from the Iranian terrorist organization the MEK in the past to conduct attacks in Iran. The MEK is the group that introduced suicide assassinations to Iran.https://t.co/dz3GQj6Qeb
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
5. Israel is a prime suspect because of a few factors:
– It has the expertise and capacity.
– It has done it before.
– It has the motivation.— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
6. Let’s unpack the last point: Conducting attacks in Iran has few down-sides for Israel right now. Either Iran lashes out and sparks a broader conflict that sucks in the US, bringing about a US-Iran confrontation that Netanyahu long has sought.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
7. If Iran sits tight and waits out the Trump presidency, Israel will not have lost much as Trump clearly has either given Israel the green light to attack Iran or at a minimum refuses to impose a cost on Israel for dragging the US to the brink of war with Iran.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
8. Either way, the assassination (and other likely future attacks) will likely harden Iran’s position and complicate – if not hinder – the Biden team’s attempts to revive diplomacy. That serves Netanyahu’s interest as well.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
9. Indeed, Tehran’s openness to post-JCPOA negotiations on missiles and other matters will likely diminish if Israel engages in assassinations in Iran or attacks Iranian targets elsewhere – such as in Syria.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
10. In fact, the Obama administration CONDEMNED Israel’s earlier assassinations precisely because it knew the murders wouldn’t set back Iran’s nuclear program – their only intent and impact would be to set back diplomacy. See https://t.co/f8NOUfTbiY
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
11. We are now in a worse situation for the next +50 days. The main impact of attacks of this kind will NOT be to set back Iran’s program but to render diplomacy for Biden more difficult. Trump will not push back against these attacks – he may even be encouraging and aiding them.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
12. Be prepared for a very bumpy ride till Biden’s inauguration. And if it turns out that Israel was behind the assassination, have no illusions about Netanyahu’s desire to drag the US into another endless war in the Middle East…
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
Waiting to hear someone in DC make the case that the assassination of Fakhrizadeh will actually help (??!!??) Biden by creating more "leverage" (!!???!!!) for him…
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 27, 2020
https://original.antiwar.com/porter/2020/12/02/how-israel-deployed-an-intelligence-deception-to-justify-killing-mohsen-fakhrizadeh/
Leave it to the Israelis to create something out of nothing. A piece by Gareth Porter.
https://journal-neo.org/2020/11/29/trump-is-speeding-up-the-creation-of-an-anti-iranian-power-bloc/
The accelerated creation of an anti-Iran bloc.
The globalists seem to be looking for WW III in a possible bid to forestall a global economic downturn, install select regimes, and accomplish other depopulation goals.
“God Bless America” must be the greatest psychological op ever perpetrated against generations of US citizens. The murder of millions through war, regime change, and sanctions with little citizen uproar or congressional disapproval smacks of a collective gone way off the rails.
U.S. State propagandists are asking, “Who could have done this?”, followed by propaganda about the mythical Iranian nuclear weapons program. Actually they don’t even say “weapons”, they just say “nuclear program”, and their listeners/watchers are supposed to have already been programmed to think that Iran has nothing to do with nuclear energy, only nuclear weapons. Obviously Israel did this assassination, unless there’s a mountain of evidence that they didn’t. I wonder what Putin will say about it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCYY3w5VoZg
I can’t watch that warmonger speak. Does he say anything of interest?
“of all peoples in an advanced stage of economic civilization amerikans are least accessible to long views, always and everywhere in a hurry to get rich they give no thought to remote consequences–they see only present advantages. amerikans do not feel, they do not remember : amerikans live in a materialist dream”. Moisede Ostrogorski
the decayed empire is desperate and near collapse—amerikans are too stupid to recognize this
how much did the CIA pay for this?
Government never pays anything…. You sir, pay either by taxes or the dilution of your currency by the thieves printing trillions at the Treasury and Federal Reserve or both.
Most of the intel agencies are into drug distribution, gun running, counterfeiting and various other ‘illegal’ activities to fund their black ops like this.
https://indianpunchline.com/biden-faces-daunting-challenges-on-nuclear-issues/
Off topic. Biden’s challenges on nuclear issues.
I don’t know why President Putin would bother negotiating with Biden’s team. Russia holds a great many economic and military aces. His opening gambit would be conditional that the US remove sanctions on Russian entities and the removal of US and NATO troops from Syria, the Baltic nations, and the Caucasus.
That analysis is probably too simplistic. Too simplistic if America had an iota of peaceful intentions.
The Iranians seem to be discerning enough to know that his assassination was a provocative act. The Iranians are not taking the bait. They recognize that Israel wants them to respond with a violent act. The Iranian leadership’s position right now is that there WILL be retaliation, but at the right time and of Iran’s choosing.
This is the second or third time…. One would think the Iranians would ‘learn’ at some point…