Iran suspects Israel killed two scientists with poison - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Iran bestows the label martyr as an honor on those killed by enemy fire or in the line of duty to their country.
53% : Entezari had a doctorate in aeronautics and worked on projects related to missiles and airplane turbines for a government aerospace center in the city of Yazd, about 390 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran.
50% : "The past year has been a year of changing course in Israel's strategy vis-à-vis Iran," said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel on Tuesday at a meeting of the parliamentary foreign affairs and defense and foreign affairs committee.
48% : Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
45% : The quickening pace of attacks in Iran, taken together with recent comments by Israeli leaders, suggest a shift in Israel's strategy.
45% : The only official mention of Aghamolaei's death was a condolence statement from the president of Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, which said he was a doctoral student in geology.
44% : Supporters of the nuclear deal, however, say it will limit Iran's uranium enrichment, allow the United Nations nuclear watchdog to resume monitoring of the Iranian nuclear program, and reduce the threat of Iran developing nuclear weapons.
39% : Aghamolaei had just returned to Tehran from a business trip to the northwestern city of Tabriz when he developed intense nausea and diarrhea that worsened day by day until his organs failed and he died, according to a friend.
39% : Iran, in turn, has tried to target Israeli citizens around the world, and armed and funded regional militias hostile to Israel, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon.
39% : The agreement eased punishing economic sanctions on Tehran in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear activity.
38% : A spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office declined to comment on the two recent deaths inside Iran.
35% : Iran believes Israel killed them by poisoning their food, according to an Iranian official and two other people with ties to the government who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
35% : If, as Iran suspects, these mysteriously similar deaths were targeted killings, it would fit the pattern of a shadow war with Israel that has seen both sides strike each other with just enough secrecy to avoid a full-blown war.
33% : In the past two weeks alone, a series of deaths linked to Israel have rattled Iran.
33% : If the negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal collapse and Iran accelerates its nuclear activities or further reduces cooperation with UN monitors, the covert war with Israel risks blowing up into an open conflict.
29% : "Whether or not there is a nuclear deal, this type of activity will likely intensify -- Iran extending its reach around Israel, Israel extending its reach deeper inside of Iran," said Henry Rome, an Iran analyst with the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.
27% :Over the past two weeks in Iran, a senior member of the powerful Revolutionary Guard, Sayad Khodayee, was targeted and killed in a drive-by shooting in Tehran.
22% : Israel staunchly opposes the efforts, albeit faltering, to resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers -- which former president Donald Trump pulled out of in 2018.

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