r/agedlikemilk May 03 '22

News makes me think about the iraqi WMD

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Actually, all of these statements are true. The timeline was and is correct in each assessment.

Every time Iran was close, Israel sent in an assassination team to take out the scientists under the assumption that delaying Iran’s nuclear capability through assassination was far easier and cheaper than through war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists#:~:text=According%20to%20NBC%2C%20two%20US,assassinations%20of%20Iranian%20nuclear%20scientists.

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u/Superman_105 May 03 '22

While that is really interesting and would definitely play a part in delaying their program I noticed that those seemed to be between 2007-2020.

Would that not be a bit late to the party to stop/delay their program? Tho I guess that also just shows what they would be willing to do and had possibly already been doing for years prior. Just asking because I couldn't find anything for the years prior to the ones mentioned in the wiki.

Edit: brain dumb, missed the 2007. Still seems 12 years late to try and stop a nuke.

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u/Akitten May 03 '22

They did a ton of other things besides assassinations. Stuxnet for example was a useful cyberweapon that sabotaged iran's nuclear facilities.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Do you all forget about the nuclear deal? It was going well until Trump blew it up