How European Fecklessness Encourages the Islamic Republic’s Assassination Campaign
License to kill.
December 8, 2022
License to kill.
In September, Cypriot police narrowly foiled a plot by an Iranian agent to murder five Jewish businessman. This was but one of roughly a dozen similar operations that Tehran has conducted in Europe since 2015—on both Israeli or Jewish and American targets—which have left three dead. Matthew Karnitschnig traces the use of assassination as a strategic tool to the very beginning of the Islamic Republic, and explains its appeal:
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Neither victims nor collaborators.
A faithful Catholic will be careful never to accept anti-Jewish animus masquerading as criticism of Israel.
Bills of exchange.
An often-arbitrary system that, more often than not, harms Jews.