Romneys Trip to Israeli Maybe Marred By New Book Release of Assassinations
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Date: July 10, 2012 05:37PM
Was the new book release of Israeli Assassinations and New Policies I way to dis-credit Romneys support of Israeli.
Shocking New Book on Israeli
The hits are part of a series of regular missions deep inside Iran, intended to keep Tehran from developing weapons and following through with threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. U.S. officials have said in the past that they were not involved, and they don’t know who did it.
Iran has long blamed the scientists’ killings on Israel, which has remained silent on the matter, but media reports speculated Israel had contracted killers to do the job.
“They don’t farm out a mission that is that sensitive,’’ so sensitive that Israel’s prime minister has to sign off on it personally, Raviv said. “They might use dissidents for assistance or logistics but not the hit itself. The methodology and training and use of motorcycles is all out of the Mossad playbook. They wouldn’t trust anybody else to do it.’’
The Mossad operatives enter and exit Iran through a “multitude’’ of routes, using a series of safe houses once inside the country that predate the 1979 revolution, the authors said.
In Friday’s interview, co-author Melman said Israel believes the campaign successfully disrupted Iran’s nuclear program not only by taking out key scientists but also dissuading other up-and-coming scholars from joining the program.
Raviv is a CBS News correspondent, and Melman is a well-known Israeli reporter and commentator.
Israel has told the Obama administration that it expects American military power to “obliterate’’ Iran’s nuclear program, the authors said. If the U.S. does not act, Israel has threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear sites on its own. The U.S. prefers the carrot-and-stick approach of talks aimed at convincing Iran to stick to a peaceful nuclear regime, combined with increasingly harsh financial sanctions to punish Iran as it improves its current program.