Shadows No More
A review of Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, 432
In early November 1914, as the First World War threatened to engulf the Near East, the American consul general in Beirut sent an urgent message to the US Secretary of State. “Sir,” W. Stanley Hollis wrote, “I have the honor to report that conditions are going from bad to worse here.” Today, conditions in the Levant are once again going from bad to worse, this time as the result of Hamas’s murderous rampage into southern Israel on October 7th. That pogrom—the most lethal since the Holocaust—was perpetrated by Iranian-backed jihadists who embrace the Islamic Republic’s founding commitment to annihilate what Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called “the Zionist entity.”
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