Iran has lately been behaving so outrageously that even the E3 – France, Germany and the UK – countries that continue to adhere to the 2015 JCPOA agreement, have become alarmed. The story is here: “Europeans slam Iran plan to boost enrichment, warn it not to boot UN inspectors,” Times of Israel, December 7, 2020: […]
Natanz Explosion Sent Message from Israel to Iran: If You Build It, We Will Come
When a simple email just wouldn’t do, Israeli saboteurs decided two months ago to send a message to the Supreme Leader and his cronies in Tehran. Not for the first time, Israel decided that an act of spectacular derring-do would put the Iranians on notice: you are being watched, everywhere; we know everything you do; […]
Iran: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (#5 in a series)
Iran’s intelligence forces have broken down in the face of a series of devastating explosions. The story is here: What the world is witnessing right now is someone hitting Iranian nuclear and conventional weapons and IRGC facilities practically at will. Iran is facing a total intelligence breakdown. With another explosion on Thursday night, reportedly at […]
Iran: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (#4 in a series)
A few days after a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry had claimed that Israel was trying to claim credit, “as it always did,” for attacks which it very likely had nothing to do with, Iran changed its story. For even the Iranians found they could no longer spout such obvious nonsense, and a few days […]
Iran: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (#3 in a series)
Israel’s alleged Natanz strike was ‘as complex as Stuxnet,’and a major blow to Iran. The story of how Israel’s attack at Natanz set Iran’s nuclear project back not “by two months” as was first thought, but rather by two years, is here. An alleged Israeli attack on an advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant at […]
At Natanz, Massive Damage Sets Back Iran’s Nuclear Project By “Years”
The story is here. “Nearly three quarters of Iran’s main centrifuge assembly hall was destroyed by the recent explosion there, Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) president David Albright has told The Jerusalem Post…. According to the latest report by the think tank, “High-resolution commercial satellite imagery… shows that the Iran Centrifuge Assembly Center […]
Those Three Iranian “Accidents” In a Single Week
In late June there were three major “accidents” – or possibly cyberattacks – in Iran within the space of a week. The first, on June 25, was a huge explosion that could be seen miles away in in Tehran. Iranian authorities described this as a gas tank leak leading to an explosion in a civilian […]