Analyst: Iran explosions are likely 'covert espionage campaign': Retired US General Jack Keane: Israel conducting successful strategy against Iranian nuclear program, "and they may not be finished yet."

Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/07/20 15:02 | Tal Polon

[Patriot777]

Retired US Army General and Fox News strategic analyst Jack Keane said that the series of explosions that have taken place recently at locations around Iran are no accident, contrary to what Iran has claimed.

“In the past several months, there have been dozens of so-called ‘accidents’ the Iranians claim are taking place [...] That is no longer a credible claim, considering the sheer numbers of them,” Keane told Fox News.

In turn, he said, “There are two countries that have the capabilities to do this: the US and Israel.”

“This is a covert espionage campaign likely being conducted by the Israelis, and being assisted by informants inside Iran and others part of the resistance movement inside Iran,” Keane concluded. “I don’t think the Mossad could do this without assistance.”

Keane said he thought the alleged strikes were “a smart strategy” on the part of Israel.

“If you accept the objective that we don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons with missiles that can deliver them, then the strategy the Israelis are doing, likely with at least the moral support of the US, is fairly savvy because it gives the Israelis deniability,” he explained.

“What we’re not dealing with is air strikes on the missile and nuclear sites,” he said, in which case “Obviously it would be known that the Israelis are delivering that. And that would force the Iranians to escalate up.”

“This gives them the capability of denying it and making them much more patient and less likely to have this cyber and kinetic espionage lead to war. The Iranians don’t want that, and the Israelis, I think, are executing a strategy which has already slowed down this program by a year or two, and they may not be finished yet.”

[buridan]

“Funny how Obama never gave any moral support to Israel.”

Quite the contrary in regard to Iran’s nuclear program. Here’s the headline from an old article in the Israeli paper Arutuz Sheva on a provision buried in the Obama deal:

“West to Teach Iran How to Block Nuclear Sabotage”.

[Old Yeller]

Israel has to act now while they know the US has their back, because in about 4 months that could all change.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for finding that and pointing it out. I didn’t know the Iran deal had such a stipulation in it. Obama was such a horrific, evil man.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Why would Iran want the world to think these are accidents?

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That’s the best part. The Iranians say they are accidents or deny that they even happened. They look like idiots, and there can be no repercussions for doing this.

They are either doing something that they really don’t want discovered or, as others have said, cannot let their powerlessness be known at home.

[Bob434]

The UN will rush in and accuse Israel of human rights violations for ‘depriving iran of lifesaving nuclear power’

[blackdog]

Rods from God. Those 2,000 pound tungsten poles that re-enter from orbit and the kinetic energy at impact takes care of business very deep underground.

[Lazamataz]

General?

You do know of a term called “OPSEC”?

Practice it.

[arthurus]

I like the cyber manipulation explanation for at least one or two of these.

[arthurus]

I suspected a couple of those might have made the mountain in Norkea collapse on their nuke program. That mountain had been hollowed out pretty extensively, A tungsten or depleted uranium rod could well collapse that.