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BY BLAKE HANSON
U.S. officials say Israel financed, trained and equipped a terror group that killed an Iranian nuclear scientist. NBC News broke the story, writing...
“Two senior U.S. officials confirmed for NBC News the [People’s Mujahedin of Iran’s] role in the assassinations, with one senior official saying, ‘All your inclinations are correct.’ A third official would not confirm or deny the relationship, saying only, ‘It hasn’t been clearly confirmed yet.’ All the officials denied any U.S. involvement in the assassinations.”
The report from NBC was following up on initial claims made by a senior Iranian official. So what’s Israel saying about all this? The Jerusalem Post writes:
“The Foreign Ministry declined to comment, saying it would not ‘react to every gossip and report being published worldwide...’”
The group is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Ynetnews.com has more on the terror group’s long history, writing...
“The organization fought the Iranian monarchy in the 1960s and the Islamist regime in the 1980s. It moved its HQ to Iraq following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It was claimed it provided the US with intelligence on Iran.”
Before the news broke, NPR spoke with an expert from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who said we’ll likely see many more shots at Iran.
“...it's very likely that Iran's nuclear sites have been penetrated by foreign intelligence agencies. So there are likely to be more computer viruses and explosions and things like we've seen in the past.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently suggested Israel could attack Iran as soon as this Spring.
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