If the combined talents of Western Intelligence assets are capable of carrying out such precise and brazen acts of assasination then why target a few unimportant (impotant to those who love them, but not strategically) individuals? Why not targtet the head of the Basij force? Why not Ahmadinejad or Khamenei? Doesn’t make sense. What does make sense is that all totalitarian states must have an outside enemy to survive. The Third Reich needed an international Jewish conspiracy. The Soviet Unbion needed the percived threat of the West. Oceania needed Eastasia. The Islmaic Republic needs the threat of Israel, US and Britain in order to survive. They hope that this threat will unite the people of Iran so that they forget the domestic hardship levied on them by the Mullahs. It also gives the regime a reason to explain to the people why national assets have to be deployed in building up the military rather than being used for general welfare. The more the regime finds itself distanced from the pople and threatened by their general discontent, the more the need to ratchet up the perceived outside threat, so, in their mind, a few meaningless assasinations blamed on the outside enemies should do the trick. Cui Bono should point us to the answer. However this time it may not work as the people of Iran have become wise enough to see through the childish ruse of the monsters.