Comment: Cyber-attacks, industrial sabotage, assassinations and outright terrorist attacks against civilians, Israel has committed them all against Iran, dozens of times each, over the years. The rationale for it is 'national security', which essentially amounts to preventing Iran from developing economically and becoming a strong regional power. The same reason the US blew up the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines...
Israel conducted clandestine strikes against two key natural gas pipelines in Iran this week, marking an escalation in the years-long standoff between the two states, the New York Times has reported.
"Israel has long targeted military and nuclear sites inside Iran," but this week's attacks on the energy infrastructure "marked an escalation in the covert war and appeared to open a new frontier," the NYT wrote, citing Western officials.
The newspaper's anonymous sources also attributed a separate incident to Israeli sabotage - an explosion that rocked a chemical factory on the outskirts of Tehran on Thursday, which local officials ruled an accident.
The two gas pipelines run for more than 1,000 kilometers and carry around 2 billion cubic feet (57 million cubic meters). The blasts temporarily took out around a sixth of Iran's daily natural gas production, causing local outages.
Comment: The attack occurred in the middle of winter in Iran, so the sabotage could potentially have severe consequences for millions of Iranians.
Comment: So Israel within a few months committed acts of war against, Syria, Lebanon and Iran on top of the genocide against the Palestinian population. Does Israel have a death wish or are they getting desperate as if time is of essence in all this?
At the same time, the US has bombed Yemen, Syria and Iraq while providing all the bombs for Israel's genocidal war. Does anyone really believe they are interested in peace?
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