Two papers comment on the series of terror attacks this week in Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok:
The Jerusalem Post comments following the “work accident” resulting in the premature explosion of a bomb that Iranian agents were preparing in Bangkok: "The Islamic Republic and Hezbollah have proven in the past that they are capable of carrying out murderous terror attacks – not just against Israel. Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh was responsible for the 1983 US Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American servicemen and 58 French paratroopers, and the 1983 US Embassy attack that killed 60 people in the same city. But Hezbollah is just a proxy for Iran, the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. Iran’s mullahs were behind the bombing of Buenos Aires’s AMIA Jewish community center and the Israeli Embassy there in the 1990s. Revolutionary Guard operatives and their Shi’ite collaborators have been a destabilizing force in Iraq, murdering US troops and Sunni Iraqis there. Iran also supports anti-Western forces in Afghanistan and smuggles arms and missiles to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. One motive behind the attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi was Iran’s desire to deter the West from a strike on its nuclear facilities. A fierce Western response to these attacks, in contrast, would send a counter-message to the mullahs in Tehran."
Yisrael Hayom asserts that "The main and sweeping conclusion that arises from the wave of terrorist attacks in recent days is that Iran is under pressure," and adds, "There is no other way to interpret its crude and violent conduct that contravenes almost all operational or diplomatic logic, except that the decision-makers in Tehran are now working from the gut instead of with their heads." However, the author notes that "Israel had no warning of the current wave of terrorism," and says that despite the apparent haste and amateurishness of their implementation, "the preparation was scrupulous: Considerable intelligence was collected and the terrorists knew exactly who to look for." The paper speculates that "Israel is hoping to use the events of recent days (including the growing evidence of Iran’s involvement in helping President Assad violently put down the demonstrations in Syria) as leverage for a diplomatic dividend that would further tighten the siege on Iran over the nuclear issue," but adds, "Iran’s haste to act despite the heavy cost entailed by its exposure in all fronts should certainly be a cause for concern in Jerusalem and the west."
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