Over the past 28 months, assassins have targeted at least five Iranians scientists or engineers, men linked by Western intelligence agencies to the country’s controversial nuclear program.
One was Darioush Rezaeinejad, an Iranian electrical engineer working at a national security research facility. Last July, he was driving home with his wife after picking up their daughter from kindergarten. Outside the front gate of the family home, two gunmen in sunglasses approached, pulled out handguns and opened fire.
[blockquote] “Whatever their effectiveness in crippling Iran’s nuclear program, the assassinations have left a real trail of grief.” [/blockquote]
Of that there can be no doubt. But war, whether limited or not, would leave a much more extensive tale of grief.
I have no idea who these people are. But if it is Mossad targeting selected key individuals on good intelligence, then the human cost of that is much cheaper than bombing a reactor or sending in Sayeret Matkal to take it out.