Mitchell D. Silber
The Wall Street Journal
“Iran’s next target could well be on American soil,” said Mitchell D. Silber. The bombing attempts aimed at Israeli Embassy personnel in India and Georgia this week may well be the beginning of an Iranian campaign to retaliate for the West’s attempts to stop its nuclear program. Tehran’s modus operandi is to use Hezbollah terrorists to carry out attacks, sometimes enlisting sympathetic citizens of foreign nations as accomplices. That’s how Iran attacked Israeli and Jewish targets in Argentina in 1992 and 1994, killing 114 people. With its large Jewish population, New York could be high on Iran’s list for subsequent attacks. In October, U.S. intelligence officials foiled a plot directed by Iran to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. by blowing up a crowded Washington, D.C., restaurant—potentially killing hundreds of Americans. James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, recently warned that as tensions with the West grow, Iran’s fanatical mullahs are “more willing to conduct an attack in the U.S.” As this week’s events demonstrated, we are entering a perilous period. Iran means to make good on its threats.
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