Recall, there IS a history of the state of Israel going after foreign scientists. During the fifties and the sixties, German and other European scientists were being offered top dollar to assist in the development of Arab rocket programs. Some of these scientists previously worked for the NAZIS.

The Israelis whacked about half a dozen of them, and soon that put an end to Europeans taking up Arab offers to work on weapons programs.

But it’s a little bit late in the day for the Israelis to start pinpointing Iranian scientists, this should have been an ongoing operation over the last decade.

So I’m with you. IF, IF, the story is accurate, then I’m inclined to believe that this scientist is some Iranian Sakharov type, who began to see that the ruling religious council is taking ALL of Iran down a path of nuclear exchange, thus obliteration.

That makes more sense than the Israelis taking down a scientist.

Though we do have to leave open the possibility that this guy might have been more motivated than most, smarter than most, and thus uniquely warranted getting whacked.

Or maybe Israel is sending a message, “We killed this scientist, and we’ll kill all of you too…unless you drop this program.”

But there is no way that the religious council can climb down from this now. They’re committed. They’ve poured TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars into it, spent almost two decades striving towards a weapon. They’ve got tunnel vision now, they’re completely focused on this.

And the very length of their project, the many years, ALL serves to create a sick, weird apocalyptic MOMENTUM for their bombs. Thus in the pursuit of the bomb, they are finding INCREASED psychological and religious motivation to actually use the thing.

This isn’t for MAD, nor is it because “all of their neighbors” have the bomb.

These guys are whacked.

So we had better start whacking quite a number of them pronto.