Iran's Knucklehead Assassination Strategy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : But in the past six weeks, three incidents suggest that Iran is ready for another round, this time with new, more amateurish tactics.
43% : But even assuming a solid connection to Iran, these three recent cases would not demonstrate that it can kill with the same professionalism and brio as the Americans and Israelis.
40% : Although Iran vowed revenge, and days later sent a volley of missiles into an American base in Iraq's Anbar province, it seems to have taken the valentine seriously.
39% : "But this covert stuff," like the U.S. assassination of Soleimani or Israel's killing of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, "is something they just haven't mastered."
39% : Otherwise, in light of these recent cases, any compromise with Iran will look like a sweetheart deal, box of chocolates or no.
38% : Iran did, however, test the boundaries of the threat: More than 100 U.S. personnel were later found to have lasting neurological effects from the blasts.)
37% : (All of this raises a question: How much does Iran want a deal, anyway?)
35% : He summarized it: The killing of Soleimani is an isolated event.
32% : Now Iran may be trying to show that it can whack Americans in the United States, too.
19% : Killing Soleimani was worse than a crime These operations by knucklehead-proxy probably reflect the limits of what Iran can do.

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