{"id":82200,"date":"2022-05-24T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82200"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:06:33","slug":"cloak-conceals-dagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82200","title":{"rendered":"Cloak conceals dagger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


On Sunday, an IRGC Colonel, Hassan Sayad Khodai, was assassinated in broad daylight<\/a> outside his home by two assailants on a motorcycle. There’s been no official claim of responsibility.

It’s a mystery why Khodai was targeted. It’s possible it was in retaliation<\/a> for Khodai’s involvement in plots against Israeli officials. But, consider the history of high-profile assassinations inside Iran.

Between 2007 and 2012, five people associated with Iran’s nuclear program were assassinated in Iran. Several of these instances involved assailants on motorcycles. Another prominent figure, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran\u2019s atomic energy program, was assassinated in 2020. The complex operation involved smuggling in and assembling a remote-controlled gun.

A brazen Israeli intelligence operation<\/a> in 2018 involving stealing thousands of documents related to Iran’s nuclear program from a secret warehouse in Tehran.

A Colonel doesn’t seem like a high enough profile target to risk such a daylight operation, especially if he isn’t involved with Iran’s nuclear program, the high profile, high risk target Israel is committed to spending valuable resources on.

If Israel was indeed behind it, clearly Israel has developed exceptional intelligence capabilities inside Iran. Who Israel works with is of course a closely guarded secret. Whether Israel smuggles in its own operatives, or works with natives such as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), is not known.

The war in the shadows continues apace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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