Tehran Is Close to Getting Massive Sanctions Relief from Washington. So Why Does It Keep Trying to Kill Americans?
Because it can get away with it.
August 22, 2022
Tehran Is Close to Getting Massive Sanctions Relief from Washington. So Why Does It Keep Trying to Kill Americans?
Because it can get away with it.
On August 10, the federal government announced that it had charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with trying to assassinate John Bolton, the former national security advisor, as well as another official—most likely the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo. Within the past year, Iranian agents have also twice tried to kidnap or harm the dissident activist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home, while the degree of Iranian involvement in the recent attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life remains unclear. The Islamic Republic has been involved in plots of this sort on U.S. soil since 1980, as Matthew Levitt documents, but the recent ones coincide with steps toward the renewal of a nuclear deal favorable to Iran. Why would the ayatollahs want to put such a deal at risk? Levitt writes:
August 22, 2022
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