Washington-based senior journalist Barbara
Slavin, currently a correspondent for Al-Moitor
and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, reported today that Israelis, and
not Israeli agents, have killed Iranian nuclear scientists. Slavin’s report is
based on a recently published book by Dan Raviv, a CBS correspondent, and Yossi
Melman, a former intelligence correspondent for Ha’aretz, titled “Spies Against Armageddon.”
The authors say that Israel would not have
contracted out such controversial and difficult work, killings by motorcycle
riders who affixed sticky bombs to their victims’ cars in Tehran traffic.
“For such a sensitive dangerous and daring mission as a series of
assassinations in Iran’s capital, the Mossad would not depend on hired-gun
mercenaries,” Raviv and Melman assert. “They would be considered far less
trustworthy and there was hardly any chance that the Mossad would reveal to
non-Israelis some of its assassination unit’s best methods.”
To read Slavin’s entire report, please click here.
Haven't read the report yet. But if all they have to go with is "Israel wouldn't hire out, etc." and nothing else, I'm skeptical of the report. Such assertions require supporting evidence.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen the "report" but it is a fact that the guys who have doing this, some of whom arrested and perhaps by now executed, were Iranians. These guys are "agents", although the terminology here does not matter! I very much doubt Israel has sent a team of experts into the country to do this delicate job. Azar
ReplyDeletereport/book or whatever is a smokescreen.
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