U.S. officials and defense analysts are concerned that a covert war of assassinations between Israel and Iran could escalate out of control, the good folks at Bloomberg write.
“Things are heating up and there is a surge” of assassination attempts, Matthew Levitt, a former U.S. Treasury Department official and now director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said in a telephone interview.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday blamed Iran for car bombings of Israeli diplomatic vehicles in New Delhi and the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The attacks come after the deaths of several Iranian nuclear scientists, the most recent in a Jan. 11 car bombing in Tehran that Iran said Israel had orchestrated.
Israeli leaders have said time is running out for sanctions…
Find out more at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-13/delhi-blast-hurts-two-in-israeli-embassy-car-as-georgia-bomb-is-made-safe.html
No comments:
Post a Comment