The somewhat tortured, but revealing, argument is made in an Aug. 3 article in The Telegraph, which begins by detailing the significant military deployment by the U.S. into the area, to “defend Israel” from an expected Iranian attack. “The United States has sent warships and fighter jets to the Middle East as it prepares for a major Iranian attack against Israel over the assassination of Hamas’s political leader. A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln is being transferred to the region to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Pentagon officials said.”
The remainder of the article elaborates on the implications of the security failure by Iran, which they say involved the Mossad bribing Iranian security personnel to plant bombs in the safe house. “It emerged on Saturday [Aug. 3] that Iran has arrested two dozen people, including intelligence officers, as it hunts down the intelligence leak which led to Israel killing Ismail Haniyeh on a visit to Tehran.… The arrests were made at the military-run guesthouse in Tehran where Haniyeh was assassinated, sources told the New York Times. Staff and army officials were also arrested during the raid, which is seen as an attempt to compensate for the humiliating security failure.” A source added: “Upon further investigation, they discovered additional explosive devices in two other rooms.”
