FILE PHOTO: A view shows the scene of the attack that killed Prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, outside Tehran, Iran, November 27, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Simon Tisdal, The Guardian: Was scientist’s killing the opening shot of a Trump-led war on Iran?
The assassination of the country’s top nuclear expert raises fears that the outgoing US president is determined to take further action
The assassination on Friday of Iran’s leading nuclear scientist has heightened suspicions that Donald Trump, in cahoots with hardline Israeli and Saudi allies, may be trying to lure the Tehran regime into an all-out confrontation in the dying days of his presidency.
Trump’s four-year-long Iranian vendetta is approaching a climax – and he still has the power and the means to inflict lasting damage.
Speculation that Trump might soon initiate or support some kind of attack on Iran, overt or covert, kinetic or cyber, had swirled across the Middle East in the wake of last weekend’s unprecedented meeting in Saudi Arabia between Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
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WNU Editor: Talk about speculation and conspiracy theories. President Trump has always said that these useless wars do not serve America's long term strategic interests. And he is the first President in my life time who did not start or war and/or escalated an existing one. Would he break this streak to start a war .... especially since US forces are withdrawing from the region on his orders?
I doubt it.
As to what do the other nations in the region think or want to do. Bottom line. The U.S. does have influence, but not to the extent that many in the Western media like to believe it does. If Israel wants to assassinate Iran's top nuclear physicist, they will do it with or without U.S. blessings.
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