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Iran’s Achilles’ heel? Security gaps and possible enemy infiltration

The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist has exposed security gaps which suggest its security forces may have been infiltrated and that the Islamic Republic is vulnerable to further attacks.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s killing on Friday followed two other big security lapses — the theft of Iran’s nuclear archive and a fire at a nuclear facility this year that some Iranian officials blamed on cyber sabotage.

With Fakhrizadeh the fifth Iranian nuclear scientist killed in targeted attacks since 2010, security experts are suggesting Iran’s enemies have found its Achilles’ heel.

No worry, Xi is a Mullah backer he’ll see to it that China Joe fixes that for them.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2020December 1, 2020•0•Iran

Why Iran Is Getting the Bomb

The ‘moderates’ staffing the Biden administration will move quickly to cement Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy, starting with its most obvious failures

Barack Obama will never forgive Benjamin Netanyahu for being right about the Iran nuclear deal. In his new memoir, Promised Land, Obama writes that the Israeli prime minister’s “vision of himself as the chief defender of the Jewish people against calamity allowed him to justify almost anything that would keep him in power.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2020December 1, 2020•0•Iran, USA

The Killing of a Nuclear Scientist May Save Countless Lives

With unfailing predictability, EU external affairs spokesman Peter Sano as well as other European Iran-appeasers rushed to condemn the targeted killing on November 27 of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. In doing so they exhibited shocking disregard for the death, destruction and suffering likely to be inflicted by the totalitarian Iranian regime utilising the pernicious expertise of Mr Fakhrizadeh.

From across the Atlantic they were joined by, among others, former CIA Director John O. Brennan, who described the killing as “state-sponsored terrorism” and “a flagrant violation of international law”. Yet Mr Brennan was in the White House Situation Room in 2011 when the US launched an operation to kill Usama bin Laden on Pakistani sovereign territory. Presumably he was not whispering into President Barack Obama’s ear that SEAL Team Six were violating international law.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2020November 30, 2020•0•Iran

‘Israeli’ assassination squad ‘used a remote-control machine gun’ to kill Iran’s nuclear chief say Iranian sources

Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed using a remote controlled machine gun left inside a car which then blew up, sources within the country have claimed.

Fakhrizadeh was shot at least three times by the gun, positioned in a Nissan pickup that was parked alongside the road he was travelling on, before it blew up, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

The details emerged as Iran held a funeral for the slain scientist, known as the father of the country’s nuclear programme, in Tehran on Monday – where leaders continued to vow revenge for his killing.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2020•0•Iran

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: What were the motives behind his killing?

Unknown to most Iranians until Friday, when he was assassinated, the nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was well known to those who followed Iran’s nuclear programme. Western security sources regarded him as instrumental in it.

Iranian media downplayed Fakhrizadeh’s importance, introducing him as a scientist and researcher involved in the search for “homegrown test kits for Covid-19” in recent weeks.

Mark Fitzpatrick, an associate fellow with London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies who follows Iran’s nuclear programme closely, also tweeted: “Iran’s nuclear program is long past the point when it is dependent on a single individual“.

Yet we know that when he was attacked Fakhrizadeh was accompanied by several bodyguards, indicating how seriously Iran took his security.

by Blazingcatfur•November 29, 2020November 29, 2020•0•Iran

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Iran blames Israel for killing top scientist

Iran’s president has blamed Israel for the killing of a top nuclear scientist on Friday, and said it would not slow down the country’s nuclear programme.

Hassan Rouhani also said Iran would retaliate over Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s killing at a time of its choosing.

Fakhrizadeh was killed in an ambush on his car by gunmen in the town of Absard, east of the capital Tehran.

Israel has not commented, but it has previously accused him of being behind a covert nuclear weapons programme.

by Blazingcatfur•November 28, 2020November 28, 2020•0•Iran

Woman freed in Iran hostage swap was originally arrested for dating an Israeli: report

A British-Australian professor who spent 804 days in some of Iran’s most notorious jails was originally arrested for dating an Israeli, according to a report.

Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert was released from custody on Thursday after the Australian government secretly arranged a complicated prisoner swap also involving Thailand, the Australian paper The Age reports.

The university lecturer was stopped at Tehran airport in 2018, purportedly on false allegations she was a spy.

by Blazingcatfur•November 28, 2020November 28, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and violence

Backlash as Brennan sides with Iran’s Mullahs over killing of Iranian Nuclear Scientist

Following Iran’s announcement that the head of its nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated on Friday afternoon, Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan set off a storm after criticizing the “criminal” killing.

In response to the Iranian scientist’s death, which was labelled a “major psychological and professional blow for Iran,” Brennan was quick to publicize his condemnation.

Behold the Biden administration.

by Blazingcatfur•November 28, 2020November 28, 2020•0•Iran, USA

Suspected Iranian nuclear mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran

DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.

by Blazingcatfur•November 27, 2020November 27, 2020•0•Iran

CSIS alleges Iran used Toronto company to wire millions to Canada despite sanctions

A Toronto currency exchange business helped Iran secretly wire millions of dollars into Canada in violation of sanctions, according to a classified intelligence report that calls the financial transfers a threat to national security.

by Sarcasticat•November 25, 2020November 24, 2020•0•Canada, CSIS, Iran

CSIS alleges Iran used Toronto company to wire millions to Canada despite sanctions

A Canadian Security Intelligence Service report obtained by Global News accuses Alireza Onghaei, the investor immigrant behind the company, of “assisting the government of Iran in the clandestine wiring of monies into Canada.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 24, 2020November 24, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

What’s Behind Iran’s Terror Campaign in Europe?

A trial due to begin next week in the Belgian city of Antwerp is set to cast further light on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s use of official diplomatic missions in its ongoing campaign of violence and harassment of its opponents across the globe. While the threat of activities by non-state Sunni jihadi organizations remains high on the agenda of many western countries, the flouting by Iran of global norms in pursuit of the regime’s perceived enemies has received little focus. The Antwerp trial may serve to change this.

by Blazingcatfur•November 23, 2020November 22, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence