Israel planned the scientist murder to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal: Journalist
American political commentator and journalist Jim W. Dean says Israel’s assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh “was an obvious provocation to get Iran to retaliate and hence spoil the potential of getting the JCPOA back on track.”
Dean made the remarks in an online interview with Press TV on Saturday. Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in a small city east of the capital Tehran in an ambush attack on his vehicle involving an explosion and machine gun fire last week.
Fakhrizadeh’s death came two years after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an erroneous presentation about Iran's nuclear activities, warned the world to “remember that name.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said there were “serious indications” that the Israeli regime was responsible for the assassination.
One American official and two other intelligence officials confirmed to the New York Times that Israel was behind the attack.
Following the assassination, the US military has moved the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier back into the Persian Gulf along with other warships.
A military official told the CNN that the deployment was meant to provide “combat support and air cover” for American troops withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan by January 15 before President Donald Trump leaves office.
Former CIA head John Brennan has denounced the state-sponsored killing of the scientist as a "criminal" act.
He described the assassination as a crime that risked to inflame regional conflict in the Middle East.
“The act was an obvious provocation to get Iran to retaliate and hence spoil the potential of getting the JCPOA back on track. Israel is desperate to prevent that,” said Dean.
“We already have on the record now Trump wanting to make a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, also to get it to retaliate and prevent Biden having any chance to deescalate Persian Gulf tensions,” he stated.
“There are powerful entities that was to keep the region boiling,” he noted.
“Trump is also looking to see what kind of favors he can earn while he is still president, like an extradition safe refuge from his looming legal problems, which include criminal charges. A desperate man is a dangerous one,” he concluded.
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