October 14, 2014 | Quote
Did Israel Sabotage Iran’s Illicit Nuclear Facilities at Parchin?
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Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, believes that the Hezbollah operation may have been triggered for different reasons. “The attack appears to be part of a broader conversation that the Iranians and Hezbollah are having with the US,” Badran writes in NOW Lebanon. “Even as the operation targeted Israel, its message was as much aimed at Washington.”
To be sure, Badran explains, Hezbollah “needed to retaliate for a series of blows by Israel. This includes, most recently, the death of a Hezbollah sapper as he was dismantling an alleged Israeli listening device in Adloun last month.” But, argues Badran, Hezbollah was also signaling “that it is willing to heat things up on the border should Israel, and the U.S., allow Syrian rebels to advance from the Golan toward southeastern Lebanon.”
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