Where to begin? Do the Israelis and Americans really think that bumping-off Iranian nuclear scientists is the path to restraining or inhibiting the Iranians from having their own nuclear capability? If so, it's plain dumb and the consequences for everyone in the world, not only in the Middle East, far from positive. Apart from possible military action, a blockade of the Strait of Hommus would send oil prices skyward. Just what the world needs as economies teeter in all manner of ways. Mondonweiss takes up the issue.....
Does the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist on the streets of Tehran earlier today endanger a former Marine who was lately convicted in Tehran of spying? Even the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, Thomas Erdbrink, is reporting that it does.
And if it turns out that Israel killed that scientist, as its officials have hinted triumphantly, what does this mean about the danger to American lives flowing from Israeli militarism? What does this say about Israel's concern for American lives?
Maybe most important: What does this killing do to international efforts to try and cool the Iranian issue before it boils over? Did Israel just spike those efforts?
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