“It is not the material evidence but the fairly caricatured and systematic narrative promoted by the authorities of the Islamic Republic who led to think that they are the target of a sabotage campaign and that they try to hide these clandestine operations”decodes the researcher Clément Therme, teaching manager at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier and Sciences Po Paris. The other abundant element in this sense are the theaters of these incidents. “”These explosions occur in special places, or nearby, as was the case for the building of the organization of justice “continues this specialist in Iran.
The explosions are multiplying in Iran which could well be the victim of a “secret war”
Camouflage attempt
On July 11, an explosion seriously damaged a residential building in Tehran, making ten injured. The gas leak invoked, and puts on the account of the “negligence of the owner”, summarizes this attempt to camouflage on the part of the authorities insofar as it appeared later that the building was not connected to the urban gas network. The case, which sparked a joke campaign on social networks, also shows that the population is not fooled. A fire also hit Hashemi Nejad airport in Machhad, in the northeast of the country, an infrastructure that Israel had bombed on June 15, during the twelve-day war between the two countries. Other incidents took place in Qom, Tabriz, Karaj or Abadan.
The succession of incidents in such a short period of time has nevertheless pushed the authorities to investor discreetly, according to anonymous sources advanced by the New York Times. They would be convinced to be the subject of a coordinated campaign that they would attribute to Israel and Mossad. These incidents could indeed constitute secret consequences of last month war between Israel and Iran. These last two decades, the Hebrew State has been customary for various clandestine operations, installation sabotages, cyber attacks, or targeted assassinations, aimed at both industrial or military sites (as in 2020) and personalities linked to the Iranian regime or scientists of its nuclear program. The objective is always identical: to reduce the Iranian threat, in particular short-circuiting its advances in the quest for an atomic weapon.
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