Attacks Raise Specter of Escalating Israel-Iran War

[xchrom]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-13/delhi-blast-hurts-two-in-israeli-embassy-car-as-georgia-bomb-is-made-safe.html

U.S. officials and defense analysts are concerned that a covert war of assassinations between Israel and Iran could escalate out of control.

“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 to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons and have not ruled out a military strike. The U.S. and its allies have tightened economic restrictions on Iran while seeking to avert a military conflagration in a region that holds more than half of global oil reserves.

[KansDem]

1. Call me a skeptic, but I think this is all hooey...

We just got out of a 10-year war with Iraq, then suddenly Iranian scientists are murdered by "Israeli" agents and Israeli diplomats are attacked by "Iranian" agents.

And then there is the "Iran is developing nuclear weapons" accusation. Where have we heard this before?

[malaise]

2. Maybe Netanyahu should stop killing Iranian scientists

Do you think Israel would get away with killing American or British scientists?

[Bezukhov]

3. The Israeli tail is making a mighty effort to wag the American dog.

Eisenhower didn't fall for it in '56. Hopefully, Obama has the courage to resist the same bait.

[They_Live]

4. Just say NO

to war. Behaaaave yourselves!!! (sorry couldn't resist)

Don't fall for these cheap-jack provocations.

"Running out of time!!!!" OMG!!!!