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Assassination plots contradict Iranian regime's calls for peace
Plots to kill an Israeli scientist, mayor and the prime minister demonstrate the Iranian regime's reliance on covert operations to further its agenda.
![Women walk past an anti-Israel billboard in Tehran on October 26. [Atta Kenare/AFP]](/gc3/images/2024/10/30/47990-anti-Israel-billboard-370_237.webp)
By Fariba Raad |
Recent attempts to assassinate prominent Israelis, reportedly orchestrated by the Iranian regime, indicate Tehran's lack of commitment to peace in the region, analysts say.
Israeli police on October 22 announced the arrest of seven Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem on suspicion of plotting to kill prominent Israelis.
"These individuals, under Iranian direction, planned to assassinate a senior Israeli scientist and a mayor of a major Israeli city," a police statement said.
Police said the group had been promised payment for bombing a police car and throwing a grenade at a house.
"This investigation underscores Iran's efforts to recruit Israeli citizens for terrorism," the statement quoted an Israeli security official as saying.
On October 21 Israeli police dismantled a separate seven-member cell accused of spying on military bases and energy infrastructure for Iranian intelligence. The suspects were from Haifa and northern regions of Israel.
A few weeks earlier, Israeli police reported the arrest of another Israeli citizen suspected of being recruited by the Iranian regime to plan the assassination of high-profile officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Iranian regime proxy Hizbullah claimed responsibility for an October 19 drone attack on Netanyahu's residence in the central town of Caesarea.
Double-faced strategies
While the Iranian regime claims it is committed to pursuing peace, it relies on espionage and covert operations to further its agenda, said Babak Taghvaee, a defence and security analyst based in Germany.
"The Islamic Republic's pursuit of peace in the Middle East, especially with Israel, is a facade," Taghvaee told Pishtaz.
"Like other terror-supporting regimes, the Islamic Republic plays diplomatic games on the international stage," he said. "These are simply displays of peace for the global media."
Tehran has reached a point where, even if it wanted to, it could not take genuine steps toward reducing tensions with Israel, Taghvaee said.
"Iran has no interest in de-escalation, as doing so would undermine its standing with its proxy forces and numerous allies, both regional and beyond," he said.
Middle East affairs analyst Erfan Fard also pointed to the duality in the Iranian regime's policies.
"Fundamentally, this regime is opposed to peace and stability," he told Pishtaz, noting that the Iranian regime's terrorist plots undermine efforts to reduce tensions with Israel.
The "covert terrorist operations and targeted assassinations" carried out by the Iranian regime and its proxies "seriously damage trust among the parties involved in this conflict and hinder diplomatic processes," he said.
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Greetings, every scale has two plans. I condemn Israel's doings, but I do not like terrorist work by any country or group. Say love in the mountain and it echoes love, and say death in the mountain and it echoes death. My dears, when war is in Lebanon and Palestine, why should the oppressed and defenseless people of Iran be martyred and suffer unemployment while it is also the cause of inflation and invalidation of the currency of our dear country. If you play, you pay; not others do what they do and the tremors, misfortunes and bombings damage our dear country and its infrastructure.
Lie less.
Thank you for your efforts.
I am a low-literate
Israel's crimes across the world cannot be justified by any analysis. If anyone has a shred of humanity, he/she will wish to destroy the politicians and the ideology of the criminal and genocidal Westerners.
State terrorism, that is the Zionist regime, whoever wrote this text was very intellectual and stupid; whatever problem arises, the Zionist regime is only one side of the story; the whole world understands it, but this writer has not understood and will not understand that. A country like the great Iran despite all the problems they have brought to it must control this mischievous child, and the neighboring governments are giving in out of fear.
Good article, well stated. This is exactly what was said, reality. It is not a special opinion.
It's very good.
Being a free man gives inner satisfaction to a person, but someone who sells honor and conscience will feel empty in the end. Now most educated people in the world are not fooled by advertisements and this trend will increase in the future. In the end, victory is with truth and God
It’s ridiculous. Your trick doesn’t work anymore. Not that America and Israel speak very honestly. Tell me how much money you get from Israel to write this. I will ask the Islamic Republic to pay you twice as much. Shameful.
Right on, right on! These bastards always do the opposite of what is right; they have a brain problem.
Both sides are lying.
What Israel and America are like is known, but this is not a reason to consider Iran as a happy garden; not that the Iranian authorities do not lie and steal and loot. Not that we are not at all shouting for the disappearance of Israel, and not that we did not bring the country to misery because of these slogans. A little fairness is good. You have learned to use these things as excuses to say that we are on the right side and everyone who tells the truth, you relate them to these two countries.
These debates are just a game of words. You condemn Iran for absurd reasons, and while Israel has assassinated Iranian people and supporters of Iran, it is over and there is no reaction from you.
I hope you spread your news with a clear conscience.