https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55111064with the trump circus hogging all the attention in pard these days, this story apparently went unnoticed by most, but it's a big one anyway. early accusations were made against the usual suspects (israel / USA), but afaik none of their terrorist organisations has officially claimed it yet.
anyway, the obvious narrative will of course be that HE was the terrorist, and that murdering him was somehow legitimate because it will stop iran's nuclear weapons program (you know, the thing that the IAEA had repeatedly confirmed to be halted completely, until trump decided to unilaterally cancel the iran deal, because he hates america's first black president so much) - but the unfortunate truth is that it will probably just strengthen iran's resolve and conviction that they definitely NEED nuclear weapons to protect themselves against such aggression (you don't see chinese, north korean, or russian scientists executed like that by foreign forces), help their fundamentalist regime to generate public support (which was severely lacking in the last couple of years, especially with the iran deal seemingly easing tensions between the country and the west), and further stoke a rekindled conflict, that can be escalated into war at any time.
can you imagine a foreign government assassinating american scientists or generals in the streets, maybe because they (correctly) determined that the US is the #1 warmonger in the world right now? it's insane really...
This post was edited by fender on Nov 28 2020 01:20pm