US confesses to terrorist operations against Iran

Washington is seeking to stop Iran's nuclear program by means of maximum covert operations including the assassination of Iranian scientists. Speaking at the Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich openly advocated increased covert terrorism against Iran. He suggested employing "maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the Iranian program including taking out their scientists, including breaking up their systems. All of it covertly, all of it deniable." Gingrich advocated "actively funding every dissident group in Iran." US Senator Rick Santorum then explicitly advocated a preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities and said, "We would be working with Israel right now to do what they did in Syria, what they did in Iraq, which is take out that nuclear capability." Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor, also criticized the US president for not being pretty tough on Iran. "If we reelect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon." When asked whether he would choose to strike Iran militarily, Romney said "absolutely." The calls for assassination and terrorist acts come as Iran has lost a number of its scientists to terrorism in recent years. On November 29, 2010, unidentified terrorists slapped adhesive bombs onto the vehicles of Iranian university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi. Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife ...
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