U.S. officials believed that Israel might have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while Washington was engaged with Tehran in delicate talks this spring to reach an interim peace deal, according to current and former American officials.

Killing senior Iranian leaders had been part of Israel’s strategy from the start of the war. But American concerns about the targeting of two particular Iranian officials — Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Parliament — spiked during delicate cease-fire negotiations that began in April.

Fearful that an Israeli assassination effort would doom the negotiations, the United States, according to some of the officials, went so far as to ask other countries in the region to warn Iran about the possibility Israel could target the two officials.

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        Some might argue Israel is partially to blame for the original Hamas attack that led to Israeli Jew deaths. Partially due to decades of atrocities against the Palestinians and partially due to foreknowledge of the attack and doing nothing. No better way to start genociding than to play the victim, see 9/11

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        I don’t know about that. At some point the machine gotta turn towards inside. Maybe not yet.

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          They’re going to kill Israeli Muslims and Christians for sure. Maybe non-white Jews at some point as well, but that would be far into the future as they (reluctantly) took in the brown Jews as a compromise to boost their population numbers and can’t afford to lose those yet.