The Excavator, On Thursday, November 10, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the United States and Israel against attacking Iran, saying:
"Anybody who takes up the idea of an attack on Iran, should get ready to receive a strong slap and an iron fist."
Two days after Khamenei made those remarks, Israel and the shadow government in the United States tested Iran's mettle.
On Saturday, November 12, Israel teamed up with the MEK, a notorious terrorist cult that has killed numerous CIA agents and Iranian officials in the past, to kill nearly 17 Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers at an Iranian military base near Tehran. Among the dead was the founder of the country's missile defense, Maj. Gen. Hassan Moghaddam.
At a funeral held on Monday for the Martyrs who died in the attack, Tehran's mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf sang Moghaddam's praises and acknowledged that he was killed by Iran's enemies, saying:
"Martyr Moghadam was unknown in the Revolutionary Guard. Our enemies knew him better than our friends. He is irreplaceable."
The mayor's emotional speech diverted from the official line of the Iranian government, which is calling the Israeli attack an "accident."
Nobody would like to see Iran respond with irrational passion and blind anger more than Israel. So Iranian leaders are following a smart and sensible strategy at this time. Revenge can wait for now.
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Attacking Israel would play into its hands, since it badly wants a war with Iran to divert domestic attention from the Israeli social justice movement and international attention from the Palestinian diplomatic struggle that has already claimed major victories on the international stage.
The journalist/blogger Richard Silverstein originally broke the story that the Mossad and the MEK attacked Iran on Saturday. In an interview with Scott Horton of Antiwar.com on November 15, Silverstein said that this latest act of Israeli aggression against Iran is part of a longer "black ops program" that Israel is using against Iran.
Silverstein told Horton:
"There is a two-pronged strategy that Israel and the U.S. is following with regards to Iran. One track might be a direct military attack on Iran to try to take out their nuclear facilities. And the alternate approach is this black ops program which has involved major acts of terror at missile bases.
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