Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Hiding may not be enough.

Yesterday, "Iran launched around 180 missiles towards Israel, the Israeli military said. That would make it slightly larger than April's barrage, which saw about 110 ballistic missiles and 30 cruise missiles fired towards Israel." "Iran does not recognize Israel's right to exist and seeks its eradication." "Israel believes that Iran poses an existential threat and has spent years running covert operations against Tehran." BBC. In 2018, "The Mossad agents moving in on a warehouse in a drab commercial district of Tehran knew exactly how much time they had to disable the alarms, break through two doors, cut through dozens of giant safes and get out of the city with half a ton of secret materials: six hours and 29 minutes." "The agents arrived that night, Jan 31, with torches that burned at least 3,600 degrees," and "When time was up they fled for the border, hauling some 50,000 pages and 163 compact discs of memos, videos and plans." NYT. "Top Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in November 2020 in a sophisticated hit led by a Mossad team that reportedly deployed a computerized machine gun, required no on-site operatives, took less than a minute and did not injure anyone." "The whole device weighed about a ton and was smuggled into Iran in small parts ahead of the operation and then reassembled." The Times of Israel. In August 2020, "Iran's nuclear body has said that a fire last month at a major nuclear facility was caused by sabotage." "There were several fires and explosions at power facilities and other sites in the weeks surrounding the incident." BBC. On 3 January 2020, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and others were killed in a US drone strike as they traveled from Baghdad International Airport. AP. In January 2024, "At least 84 people were killed and 284 others injured" "in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Solaimani." "Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi blamed Israel for the explosions." CNN. In May 2024, "President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other people were killed...when the helicopter they were traveling in came down near the border with Azerbaijan." BBC. The accident was put down to bad weather but two other helicopters accompanying the president were able to land safely. Raisi was a hardliner who killed hundreds of protesters following the killing of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini by the morality police for not wearing a hijab. Reuters. On 31 July, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran while attending the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. He was staying in a residence for veterans and "Iranian state media IRNA reported that an 'airborne guided projectile' had targeted the building at 2 am local time." Other reports claimed that a bomb was hidden in his bed two months previously. CNN. It seems as though Mossad agents are able to move freely within Iran and have willing collaborators to assist them. After Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was bombed in his secret bunker by Israeli Air Force on 27 September (Reuters) "Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been taken to a secure location inside Iran amid heightened security, sources told Reuters." Very wise to hide in a burrow somewhere. But, can he be certain that Israel doesn't know the exact location already? Nowhere is safe when your own people hate you. Don't use God for killing citizens.

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