Mossad Tries To Avoid Entangling Iran Jews
Spy Agency's History of Working Around Local Communities
We discovered recently that Israeli intelligence operatives have been active inside Iran, engaged in secret and dangerous missions aimed at stopping that country’s nuclear program. Although no Israeli government spokesman has confirmed such activities, our sources say that Israelis — not Iranian dissidents or other paid mercenaries — carried out the assassinations of at least four nuclear scientists in Tehran over the past three years.
The killing campaign was aimed at persuading anyone in the scientific field in Iran to stay away from the nuclear program. Ethicists and strategists may debate the morality or efficacy of this covert violence, but it is, undoubtedly, right out of the traditional Mossad playbook. The director of the Mossad offers the prime minister several options, like a menu from which he may choose. And if extreme intimidation in the form of murder is chosen, then it is the task of Israel’s spies to carry it out and not be caught.
There is an extra element of worry, however, in Iran. About 25,000 Jews still live in that country. From time to time, Iran’s hard-line authorities have targeted the Jewish minority with false accusations of spying “for the Zionists.” The Jews, and other ethnic groups lacking power and influence in the new Iran, are easily victimized. Many have been imprisoned, typically tortured to elicit false confessions, and some have been hanged.
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