Iran’s security service concluded that the Nov. 27 hit on its 62-year-old nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was performed by remote control, a frightening prospect when you consider Iran’s been at war with Israel since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Despite having a prosperous Jewish population living in Iran for generations, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei’s Islamic Revolution brought with it religious intolerance for Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahais and other religious faiths. Khomenei turned the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s tolerance of religious faiths into undeniable religious persecution. Over the last 40 years Iran has seen a mass exodus of other religious communities that made Iran one of the great and prosperous civilization in the Middle East, leaving it a disaster under the Ayahtollah’s mullah rule. Iran’s economy and future could not be in more bleak over its brutal theocracy.
Iran’s decision to wage proxy war against Saudi Arabia and Israel created the current mess that has Israel retaliating for Iran’s relentless anti-Semitism, funding-and-arming radical groups sworn to destroy the Jewish state. So when Israel completes a mission to assassinate a nuclear scientist with the intent of supplying Iran an A-bomb to destroy Israel, Iran seems dumfounded. But what Iran should look at is its state of war with Israel land Saudi Arabia, creating the atmosphere for extra-judicial killings, infiltration, subversion and revolution. All Ayatollah Ali Khemenei would have to do is declare Iran’s peace with its neighbors, ending its proxy wars designed to subvert the sovereignty of its neighbors. Fakhrizadeh’s killing must be seen in the context of an ongoing guerrilla war with its neighbors Israel and Saudi Arabia. What does Tehran expect, a peace offering?
When Al-Quds’ 62-year-old Commander Qassem Solemani was vaporized by a U.S. predator drone Jan. 3, 74-year-old President Donald Trump tried to send the Ayatollah a cease-and-desist letter when it came to Iran’s proxy wars against Israel and Saudi Arabia. Attacking Saudi Arabia’s main Aramco Aqaiq-Khurias oil refinery Sept. 14, 2019, the Ayatollah knew there would be repercussions, eventually leading to Solemani’s targeted assassination. Iran can’t have it both ways: Trying to protect its nuclear scientists or other government officials when they’re at war with other countries. Every time an Iranian Houthi missile hits Saudi Arabia or a Hamas or Hezbollah rocket is fired at Israel, Khamenei guarantees his own fate. If Israel has the technology to vaporize Fakhizadeh by remote control, Khamenei and other Iranian officials should think twice about their state of war.
Whatever methods Israel, Saudi Arabia or any other country employ to stop Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism, the Ayatollah’s mullah regime brings the misery on himself. No one at the U.N., European Union or United States likes to see extra-judicial assassinations but they also don’t like to see ongoing proxy wars to topple sovereign governments. What gives Iran the right to attack other U.N.-sovereign states with proxies to attain its goal of dominating the region. Khamenei knows he’s one miscue away from watching his power liquidated by a major U.S. attack. Iran likes to pretend it has the military capability of other superpower but it’s a poor country who’s economy has been decimated by international sanctions, restricting oil sales for violating nuclear agreements, like the July 15, 2025 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action {JCPOA] AKA “the Iranian Nuke Deal.”
Former 58-year-old President Barack Obama and his 76-year-old Secretary of State of State John Kerry assembled the P5+1, including the U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany, to halt Iran’s feverish uranium enrichment industry, getting dangerously close to military grade fissile material. While getting an international agreement to slow Iran’s pursuit of an A-bomb seemed like a good thing, it didn’t consider the consequences of handing Iran billions in cash to fund its proxy wars. Trump eventually saw through the charade, canceling U.S. involvement in the JCPOA May 8, 2018, prompting Iran to go on the warpath. Iran not only ramped up its proxy wars with Israel and Saudi Arabia, it escalated its uranium enrichment production, now possessing 12-times the limit specified in the JCPOA. Khemenei gave the green light to generate more enriched uranium once Trump pulled out.
Finding that Israel, in concert with the U.S. or the People’s Mujadedin Organization in Iran, conducted the Nov. 27 assassination of Fakhrizadeh by remote control should tell Khamenei that he could be next. Khamenei and his authoritarian mullah regime has a choice to continue his proxy wars against Saudi Arabia and Israel or get back to the peace table to rejoin the international community. Israeli “conducted using electronic equipment and there was nobody on the scene,” said Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top security officials. You’d think that Samkhani would advise the Ayatollah that the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia have the technology to target anyone in the Ayatollah’s regime. “Terrorists murdered and eminent Iranian scientist today,” said Iran’s 60-year-old Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. When will Zarif say that conducting proxy wars against its neighbors have consequences for Iran.
