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Iranian newspaper calls for strike on Haifa if Israel killed scientist
680 News ^ | Nov. 29, 2020 | Amir Vahdat, Jon Gambrell, AP

Posted on 11/29/2020 7:08:53 AM PST by rickmichaels

An opinion piece published by a hard-line Iranian newspaper on Sunday suggested Iran should attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of a scientist linked to its disbanded military nuclear program.

Though the hard-line Kayhan newspaper has long argued for aggressive retaliation for operations targeting Iran, Sunday’s opinion piece went further, suggesting any assault be carried out in a way that destroys facilities and “also causes heavy human casualties.”

Israel, suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the past decade, has not commented on Friday’s slaying of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Iranian officials roundly have blamed Israel for the attack, raising the spectre of renewed tensions that could engulf the region, including U.S. troops stationed in the Persian Gulf and beyond.

Kayhan published the piece written by Iranian analyst Sadollah Zarei, who argued Iran’s previous reactions to suspected Israeli airstrikes that killed Revolutionary Guard forces in Syria didn’t go far enough to deter Israel.

Striking Haifa and killing a large number of people “will definitely lead to deterrence, because the United States and the Israeli regime and its agents are by no means ready to take part in a war and a military confrontation,” Zarei wrote. He said an assault on Haifa needed to be greater than Iran’s ballistic missile attack against American troops in Iraq following the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in January.

Haifa, on the Mediterranean Sea, has been threatened in the past by both Iran and one of its proxies, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah recently suggested striking Haifa’s stores of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive fertilizer that fueled the deadly Beirut port blast in August that killed 193 people and wounded 6,500 others.

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1 posted on 11/29/2020 7:08:53 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

The Left keeps using the phrase “disbanded military program”. They should “fact check” that.


2 posted on 11/29/2020 7:10:46 AM PST by VeniVidiVici ( )
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To: rickmichaels

Iran doesn’t like it when a proxie war comes to its home turf.


3 posted on 11/29/2020 7:15:22 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: rickmichaels

On another thread, a FReeper raised the possibility the scientist was snatched rather than killed.

We’re not seeing pics of the dead scientist, nor a funeral.


4 posted on 11/29/2020 7:18:20 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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5 posted on 11/29/2020 7:18:54 AM PST by PGR88
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To: rickmichaels

Israel is not the only country that wants Iran to fail in its quest for nuclear weapons. The list of suspects is long.


6 posted on 11/29/2020 7:19:52 AM PST by Nateman (Democracy dies with vote fraud darkness.)
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To: PapaBear3625
We’re not seeing pics of the dead scientist, nor a funeral.

There was a big, bloody, messy stain on the road in one pic I saw

7 posted on 11/29/2020 7:20:59 AM PST by PGR88
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To: rickmichaels

Iran isn’t stupid enough to attack Israel while the U.S. has B-52s and the Nimitz carrier group in the area.


8 posted on 11/29/2020 7:21:03 AM PST by G Larry (There is no merit in compromising with the Devil.)
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To: rickmichaels

One wonders what even as little as 10 kt would do to that damnable well in Qom...


9 posted on 11/29/2020 7:23:18 AM PST by null and void (If a country fixed a national election overnight like America just did, we would probably invade it.)
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To: PGR88

Was that the scientist, or the driver and the guards?


10 posted on 11/29/2020 7:24:36 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: rickmichaels

>disbanded military nuclear program

In other “news”, major bridge for sale...


11 posted on 11/29/2020 7:25:00 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Nateman

“Israel is not the only country that wants Iran to fail in its quest for nuclear weapons. The list of suspects is long.”

If sixty people were involved I doubt it was the Mossad. There were too many opportunities for leaks. This was done by somebody with much less sophistication than the Mossad.


12 posted on 11/29/2020 7:27:09 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: PapaBear3625
Was that the scientist, or the driver and the guards?

If definitely looked like a stain a nuclear scientist would leave…..

13 posted on 11/29/2020 7:28:47 AM PST by PGR88
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To: rickmichaels

I bet they did it to provoke a war with Israel. Dummies.


14 posted on 11/29/2020 7:34:43 AM PST by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: rickmichaels

This is the regime that Biden, John Kerry and Ben Rhodes can’t wait to hop back into bed with. Disgusting regime and it attracts disgusting people.


15 posted on 11/29/2020 7:36:06 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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disbanded military nuclear program.”

😂🤣😂

16 posted on 11/29/2020 7:38:07 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: G Larry
Iran isn’t stupid enough to attack Israel while the U.S. has B-52s and the Nimitz carrier group in the area.

Iran is run by a religious theocracy which is widely hated by its own people. Never underestimate what a regime on the brink of collapse might do.
17 posted on 11/29/2020 7:43:06 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: G Larry

“Iran isn’t stupid enough to attack Israel while the U.S. has B-52s and the Nimitz carrier group in the area.”

They may be BIDEN their time.


18 posted on 11/29/2020 7:46:39 AM PST by o-n-money
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To: rickmichaels

Try it, Mullahs.
Just try it.
Please, oh please.


19 posted on 11/29/2020 7:49:27 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: PapaBear3625

Thomas Wictor had a good analysis of the incident and claims it was the Saudis who snatched him from his “bodyguards”, who were really his guards, so he could defect. His family is missing, too.
https://youtu.be/nb8KyzT4-ts


20 posted on 11/29/2020 7:50:40 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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