IOW, Israel's timing was perfect.
View of a damage building after a fire broke out at Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility, in Isfahan, Iran, July 2, 2020. (photo credit: Reuters)
Posted on 07/07/2020 4:35:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
[Tehran] is in a difficult position because it labeled the explosion an accident, but it is now facing a deluge of foreign media reports seeking to conclude that the explosion was perpetrated by a state or group.
This is what Iran's regime is reading: Major media from The New York Times to The Washington Post and local media such as Kuwait's Al-Jarida have all sought to assert that Israel was involved in the mysterious July 2 explosion at a warehouse in the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility... [t]hat could set back the program for months or a year.
Iran, however, is at a crossroads in other ways. It has sent tankers to Venezuela to boost gas trade. It's supporters in Iraq may have gunned down a well-known local commentator named Husham al-Hashimi. Iran is also benefiting from a UN expert opinion that deemed the US killing of IRGC Quds Force head Qasem Soleimani an 'unlawful' killing. The Islamic Republic has also triggered a dispute mechanism regarding the 2015 Iran deal.
That means Iran must weigh any response to the Natanz explosion against military and political fallout...
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
IOW, Israel's timing was perfect.
View of a damage building after a fire broke out at Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility, in Isfahan, Iran, July 2, 2020. (photo credit: Reuters)
Hey, those technicians were warned more than once about 'pull my finger'...
I guess they will make all kinds of threats.
Eff Persia
Persian bards made me pick up arms under Jimmy carter.
Mystery fire at Iranian nuclear facility is the latest in a series of unexplained incidents
Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
Updated 3:39 PM ET, Mon July 6, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/middleeast/iran-nuclear-plant-fire-analysis-intl/index.html
This satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows the substantial damage done by an explosion and a fire at an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site.
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200706145042-iran-natanz-nuclear-site-restricted-large-169.jpg
From what I have seen over the last 50 years, Israel must have a policy of always retaliating.
I wish the U.S. did. We owe Iran big time.
The Curious Case of the Exploding Iranian Nuclear Site
Iran now admits that a fire at the Natanz nuclear site destroyed a centrifuge assembly center, prompting speculation of outside interference.
By Colm Quinn
July 6, 2020, 4:47 AM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/06/explosion-iran-nuclear-site-natanz-macron-dominican-croatia/
Iran leaders under pressure to react to Natanz explosion
Iran has taken on a two-pronged strategy in response to a convergence of pressures, upping diplomatic confrontations and moving forward on its nuclear program.
By LAHAV HARKOV
JULY 7, 2020 01:57
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-leaders-under-pressure-to-react-to-natanz-explosion-634059
How great it is to be a muslime
If you screw up big time just blame it on your enemies.
You’d blame it on them if they did it or not, anyways.
Yes! You sound like me. We will collect on that debt one day, I’m sure.
The days of handling Iran with kid gloves is over!
Obama is very sad about this.
“ Persian bards made me pick up arms under Jimmy carter.”
Same here.
The real Chinese virus is the U.N.
Oh, screw this UN guy!
He should be next on the Predator target list. Make it happen in his office at the Hague.
One of the articles I've scanned in the past 15 minutes or so (perhaps one of those I linked up there) mentioned your very point -- Israel has hit Iranian assets in Syria at least 1K times, and the Iranians have talked big about retaliation. They know that if they had a little too much success with that, Israel would knock out the Hizzies' missile stockpile (which they're obviously going to do anyway, but on their own schedule), or behead the Iranian mullahcracy while the rest of the region (even Assad) danced and sang.
Carter. Despite Reagan here we are.
It should be more subtle than that, like, the UN a-hole chokes on his or her food in the last of a long line of expense-accounted lunches in one of the NYC's finest restaurants.
Thanks for posting! I had not heard about the Explosion.
Burn an American Flag and shout Death to America ? LOL
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