[ad_1]
loading…
The call came from the opinion of a hardline newspaper whose editor-in-chief was one of the previous advisers to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hossein Shariatmadari. (Read: Meeting Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, ‘Father of Iran’s Nuclear Bombs’ assassinated)
Opinion in the newspapers Kahyan posted on Sunday (11/29/2020) stated that Tehran should attack Haifa if Israel is proven to have killed Fakhrizadeh. It was suggested that Haifa was a target because in addition to causing damage to the facilities, it would also cause heavy casualties.
The Israeli government has not officially commented on allegations of involvement in the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in eastern Tehran on Friday last week.
Opinions written by Iranian analysts; Sadollah Zarei said that Iran’s reaction to the alleged Israeli airstrikes that killed the Revolutionary Guard forces in Syria had not gone far enough to repel Israel.
“Attacking Haifa and killing large numbers of people would certainly lead to deterrence, because the United States (US) and the Israeli regime and its agents are simply not prepared to participate in war and military confrontation,” Zarei wrote. Reuters, Monday (11/30/2020). (Read: Former CIA Chief: Murder of Criminal Iranian Nuclear Scientist, May Trigger Regional Conflict)
He said the attack on Haifa must be larger than the Iranian ballistic missile strike against US forces in Iraq after the US drone strike that killed Iran’s senior general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last January.
Haifa, on the Mediterranean Sea, has been threatened in the past by Iran and its allies; the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
In February 2016, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah suggested attacking the Haifa ammonium nitrate deposit. Ammonium nitrate is a highly volatile fertilizer that sets off deadly explosions like the port of Beirut in August that killed at least 192 people and injured 6,500 others.
Nasrallah said that the ability to attack the ammonium nitrate facility was as if Hezbollah had a nuclear bomb.
That statement prompted Israeli officials to come up with the option of removing ammonium nitrate from the impact distance.
Although Kayhan is a newspaper with little circulation in Iran, he is its editor-in-chief; Shariatmadari, was appointed by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and has been described as his adviser in the past. (Also read: Assassinated Iranian Nuclear Scientist, Has Tehran Become The Path Taken By Mossad?)
Iranian Parliament Threat
Iran’s parliament held a closed-door session on the Fakhrizadeh assassination on Sunday. After that, the Speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, said that Iran’s enemies should feel sorry for killing him.
“The criminal enemies have no regrets except with a strong reaction,” he told Iranian government radio.
Analysts compared Fakhrizadeh to J Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led America’s Manhattan Project in World War II who developed the atomic bomb.
Fakhrizadeh heads the so-called Amad program in Iran that Israel and the West suspect is a military operation that sees the viability of building a nuclear weapon.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the “structured program” ended in 2003. Iran has long maintained its nuclear program for peaceful purposes.
Fakhrizadeh’s assassination is likely to complicate the plans of Joe Biden, the US president-elect, who said his administration would consider re-entering Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
The risk of open conflict also increases in the remaining weeks of the administration of President Donald Trump, which unilaterally withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. After withdrawing from the deal, the Trump administration imposed a series of sanctions on Tehran.
(min)
