The Iranians are smarting from the latest Mossad attack, which destroyed much of its new centrifuge plant, built 50 meters underground, at Natanz. There have been dire threats from Iran about taking its revenge on Israel. And the Iranians were quick to announce that they had launched an attack on what they describe as a Mossad intelligence center in Kurdish Iraq, and caused many casualties among its “Israeli forces.” It was an attempt to persuade both its own people, and the rest of the world, that Iran was able to strike back at once and inflict significant damage on Israel.
The report on the supposed attack is here: “Iranian media spreads report of attack on alleged Mossad center in Iraq,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, April 14, 2021:
On Tuesday night, a number of semi-official and official Iranian media sources shared a report claiming that an intelligence and special operations center in northern Iraq allegedly belonging to the Mossad was attacked by an “unidentified group.”
The Iranian reports claimed that “Israeli forces” were injured or killed in the alleged attack and promised to release more details and footage “soon.” As of Wednesday [April 14] morning, no further details nor footage has been released.
A report on the alleged incident shared by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency claimed that “Iraqi media and sources have repeatedly warned about the activities of Zionist elements” in the Iraqi Kurdistan area.
The report was not confirmed by any official sources, but has been published by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Al-Alam News, which is owned by Iran’s state media corporation, and Press TV, an English-language news network run by the Iranian government.
The Iranian reports gave no details, only reporting that an attack on “an intelligence and special operations center” belonging to Mossad had taken place. According to Iraqi Kurdish sources, such baseless claims about the existence of a “Mossad center” in Iraqi Kurdistan have been made before. In Iran’s brief report, nothing was revealed about the attackers, described only as an “unidentified group.” Nothing was said about where the attack took place beyond “northern Iraq.” Nothing further has been said to support the claim that there have been casualties among “Israeli forces,” even though the Iranian government promised to release “more details and footage.” There has been no release of any footage – not of the building that was supposedly Iran’s target, and not of the killed and wounded Israelis. There was no mention of how the attack took place – was it a bombing, drones, cyberwarfare, Iranian agents on the ground? It was, of course, a fantasy produced by the Iranians to save face, to let their own people and the world know that they had dealt a heavy blow to the Jewish state as retaliation for its attack on the underground facility at Natanz.
It took less than a day for the Iraqi Kurds to deny the story. Just a day after the Iranian Fars news agency had reported on that attack on a “Mossad center” in northern Iraq, the Iraqi Kurds announced that there had been no such attack. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government denied reports of an alleged attack on a Mossad center in northern Iraq as “completely false” on Wednesday morning, stating that this isn’t the first time claims have been made that an Israeli intelligence center is located in Kurdistan, according to Iraqi media.
“The purpose of publishing such reports is clearly a conspiracy against the region and its political process,” added the spokesman.
That unambiguous denial of any such Iranian attack on a “Mossad center” by the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq apparently convinced the Iranians to drop their claim – it was being received with too much skepticism in the region, and outright denial in Iraqi Kurdistan, making Iran look ridiculous.
President Rouhani took a different tack. He said at a televised cabinet meeting that the answer to Israel’s Natanz attack would not take the form of violent retaliation; Iran had another, better way to strike back: “Of course, the security and intelligence officials must give the final reports, but apparently it is the crime of the Zionists, and if the Zionists act against our nation, we will answer it. Our response to their malice is replacing the damaged centrifuges with more advanced ones and ramping up the enrichment to 60% at the Natanz facility.”
Such an “answer,” in the form of uranium enriched to a level of 60%, relieves Iran of the need to strike back violently against the Jewish state, which would only prompt Israel to respond with a far more devastating blow, to which the Iranians would not dare to respond. Enriching uranium to that higher level of purity is a move that will satisfy the Iranian public that “something is being done to answer the Zionists” and yet should not trigger a violent response from Israel. And another calculation by Iran might be this: the Biden Administration, already so disposed to appeasing the Islamic Republic, will want to reward Iran for its “restraint” in its non-violent answer to Israel’s latest devastating blow at Natanz. What better way to reward Iran for holding back than to accede to its demand that some U.S. sanctions be removed before Iran re-commits to any part of the 2015 nuclear deal?
Lenny Leaps In says
Guess what Iran. The US President has his finger on the nuclear button, and his button works.
mortimer says
Who exactly is running the White House ? … not him. America’s enemies know Sleepy Joe is not in charge. Can Sleepy Joe tie his own shoes?
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
I’m not sure if Sleepy Joe can tie his own shoes, but rumor has it that he put his slippers on all by himself this morning and received two gold stars…
Lion heart says
James : ????
Phil Copson says
“Guess what Iran. The US President has his finger on the nuclear button, and his button works.”
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The only calculation that Biden’s puppeteers will be making right now is whether to counter China’s increasing influence over Iran by giving the mullahs something they want before the Chinese get round to doing it.
Biden’s handlers will doubtless be be divided between those who favour China and those who favour Iran: Biden himself of course, has a foot in both camps – being the beneficiary of deals with the Chinese as well as having a record of kow-towing to Iran with vast gifts of cash while serving as VP to Obama.
Right now, his team will be working on a press-release that will say, in essence – “As a reward to Iran for their restraint in not producing a nuclear weapon with which to attack Israel, Saudi Arabia etc – the US Govt has decided to give Iran a nuclear weapon with which to etc etc….”
gravenimage says
Alas, Lenny, I don’t think that Biden is apt to do anything sensible about Iran, He is in fact too busy appeasing them right now–a large part of the reason the Mullahs are so emboldened.
David says
His finger, probably doesn’t! (lol) No laughing matter really.. Two unstable people in charge of nuclear weapons does not bode well
Jude says
Is that the button sitting on his desk that we all thought was meant to summon Jill when he wanted to go to the toilet. Whoops!
mortimer says
Just a guess here, but I suspect that if there were a mutiny in the Iranian police and militaries, it just might spread and be impossible to quell. A counter-revolution may yet be possible in the near future.
One remembers the moment when Ceausescu lost the crowd’s support in a famous speech. The jeering progressed into a counter-revolution in which the two dictators were given a mock trial and shot dead.
I predict the mullahs will hang from the lamp posts.
ElderlyZionist says
“Enriching uranium to that higher level of purity is a move that will satisfy the Iranian public that ‘something is being done to answer the Zionists’ and yet should not trigger a violent response from Israel.”
I wouldn’t bet on a non-violent Israeli response, Habib.
Infidel says
Yeah, that sort of a move is more lethal than an Iranian violent retaliation
Walter Sieruk says
That Aggressive and hostile Islamic regime supports and funds its stooge jihad terror entities, Hezbollah and Hamas to set of bombs to murders Israeli citizens. The officials of the State of Israel comprehend this then strike back, for brute force is the only language that the jihadists are able to understand. Just like a common criminal, the Iran’s Muslim tyrants refuse to accept that they are the ones that cause Israel to strike back. Therefore, that “mullah tyranny” launches further terrors strike against Israel for “revenge.” Even though they stated it all.
Iran’s mullah president Rouhani along with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with their despicable words with his brainwash and then get the Iranian people all worked up until they chant ,over and over again, “Death to Israel.”
Ayatollah Khamenei is so ignorant that he neither knows nor understand that that all his Muslim stooge terror organizations, Hamas, Hezbollah. Hamas etc. are all fated to fail in their Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing with Islamic “state.” The reason that they will lose in the end and lose hard is because the members of those jihad terror entities are striving against the Will of God. The members who compose those Islamic terror groups might be too ignorant to know this; nevertheless, the truth is the God had given all land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the West Bank, to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. In other words the Jews have all this land by Divine Right. Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56.
Still, in all fairness, there is one way for Khamenei and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards along with the Muslim members who make up Hezbollah and Hamas to convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and then cause Him to turn His back on Israel and then have that nation be no more. That way is for the members of the jihad organizations to gather together and then change the laws of astrophysics, including those laws of astrophysics the control the sun, the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word, the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night…The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.”
Mauricio says
“It was, of course, a fantasy produced by the Iranians to save face… “.
It reminds me of the israeli tv mini series “The spy”, based on a true story, where the syrians also lied to their people after an israeli counterattack.
gravenimage says
Iran, Humiliated By Natanz, Claims It Hit ‘Mossad’ Site In Iraq
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Yeah, right–that sounds palusible…not.
Then, the Kurds claim there was no atack anywhere in the region at all.
David says
It has just occurred to me that the bulk of Iranian, Turkish, North Korean and Chinese people are not against the West. It is the governments that are the problem. Whereas Pakistan and many muslim countries are.