The Iranian Persecution Complex; Paranoia while Threatening 'Enemies'

"Some say through dialogue and negotiations actions can be taken in order to put an end to such hostility."

"This is not possible because our enemies oppose the nature of the Islamic Republic establishment ... "

"They will never put an end to their hostilities toward us."

"[We will] find the perpetrators of the plot and follow up on his [Fakhrizadeh's] research efforts."

Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

"I came here [northern Israel to meet with military commanders along the front with Syria] to evaluate the current state of security, with an emphasis on the Iranian entrenchment in Syria,."

"Our message is clear: We will continue to act as vigorously as necessary against the Iranian entrenchment in Syria, and we will remain fully prepared against any manifestation of aggression against us."

Lt. Gen Aviv Kohavi, commander of the Israeli military

 

"[Mohsen Fakhrizadeh ran] all covert activities with weaponization of the [Iranian nuclear] program [overseen by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of which the Iranian nuclear scientist was a military commander]." 

"[The damage of his death] cannot be measured since nobody knows exactly the scope and the depth [of] what the Iranians are doing covertly."

"But [there is] no doubt that he was the core source of authority, knowledge and organization of this program." 

"I highly recommend to the [Israeli] officials to keep their mouths closed and not leak anything. They've already spoken too much."

"Any more evidence that will help the Iranians to decide on retaliation against Israel is a mistake."

Amos Yadlin, former head, Israeli military intelligence, director, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv

This photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was “assassinated” Friday, state television said. (Fars News Agency via AP)

 

Iran, according to its leaders, is prepared to proceed with its nuclear program at the same time that it  cast doubt on the future of its negotiations with the West relating to the 2015 nuclear agreement that President Trump's White House abrogated in 2018, which gave the Islamic Republic the opportunity to openly flout rules of the agreement that it had  hitherto secretly set aside in the interests of continuing its nuclear agenda.

In the aftermath of the death of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday, both infuriating and embarrassing to the regime, Iran's leaders feel under pressure to retaliate for their security failure. A shake-up of the top leadership of the IRGC was first in line following a smoothly proficient operation to take out a man that Western intelligence had identified as the father of Iran's nuclear program. 

 

The operatives that witnesses described having been present to dispatch Fakhrizadeh and then disappeared the job completed, are a mystery that Iran's intelligence has solved.There was, they concluded for the public record in reversing their account of what had  transpired, no human presence in near proximity after all. The shooting of Fakhrizadeh and three of his bodyguards was done remotely, by a machine gun mounted on a vehicle nearby, using a technique and a technology unknown to Iranian intelligence and therefore capable of evading its scrutiny and prevention. 

 

Furthermore, as if to confound the issue even further, Iranian authorities accuse Iranian dissidents in the covert operation. The Peoples Mujahadin of Iran clearly were responsible for the death of Fakhrizadeh, having made a deal with Satan, in this case the Israeli Mossad which had clearly groomed and trained them, and provided them with the technologically advanced weaponry used in the expertise needed to carry out the assassination of the latest 'martyred' nuclear scientist.

General Amir Hatami said Iran would continue the path of the "martyr doctor"  Reuters

 

The original report cited eyewitnesses describing a truck bomb followed by a firefight between the bodyguards and up to 12 assassins, who ultimately escaped. Three bodyguards, 12 assassins makes for the kind of unequal challenge that would pardon Iranian security, overwhelmed by the evil presence of murderous psychopaths. But that story has changed and further clarification has it that there were no assassins present at the scene; rather a remote-controlled machine gun was involved. 

 

And there is no doubt that Israel was behind the nefarious plot since, according to Iran's Press TV a weapon with an Israeli logo was located at the scene. Iranians know all about weapons of destruction with logos on them, having developed advanced ballistic missiles with the destination identified in big bold letters on them, headed straight for Israel's destruction. 

 

Yet it is simple to read paranoia in the supreme leader's message, that it is the outside world that threatens Iran, not the Islamic Republic threatening its neighbours. The Islamist terrorist groups clandestinely supported by Iran as proxy state militias operate at Iran's orders both within the Middle East to further Iran's domination ambitions and outside the boundaries of the Middle East, targeting the People's Mujahedin of Iran and a global Jewish presence.

"[Striking the Israeli city of Haifa and killing a large number of people] will definitely lead to deterrence, because the United States and the Israeli regime and its agents are by no means ready to take part in a war and a military confrontation."

Iranian analyst Sadollah Zarei, Kayhan Newspaper

Two days later an air strike dispatched another commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards at the border of Iraq and Syria. the commander was travelling in a vehicle with three others, carrying weapons across the Iraq border into Syria. Once it crossed into Syrian territory the vehicle was hit. Tehran sends messages along to Israel promising its obliteration from the map of the Middle East which Israel reads and takes corrective action on, stating just as baldly as Iran promises to destroy it, that Israel will not permit weapons transfers to Syria.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shuffled the top ranks of the hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Sunday, appointing the deputy chief of the hardline force as its top leader, making Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami commander of the IRGC, replacing Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari, who has headed the military force since 2007, according to Iranian media reports