Strategic Assassinations May Keep Iran Nuke-Free, Send Oil Lower
For years, media have reported on a number of military options to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran has learned from the 1981 bombing of Iraq’s nuclear facility. Nuclear facilities in Iran are widely distributed and most of them are built deep underground. Some of these facilities are believed to be beyond the reach of the best U.S. bunker buster bombs, and it is not clear whether Israel possesses bombs that can penetrate reinforced subterranean targets. Has Israel instead found a low-cost and effective way to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Iranian news agency FARS is quoting Safar Ali Baratlou,