“The execution of the attacks was amateurish, uncharacteristic of the ‘Quds’ force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. We witnessed terrorists lacking basic field skills, unfinished bombs, and the use of authentic Iranian passports rather than fake identities. This particular cell did everything that a professional organization takes pains not to do (for example, those professionals behind the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists).

 

Perhaps Iran was anxious to exact quick revenge, but the bottom line is very problematic for Tehran: arrested terrorists in Azerbaijan [a terror attack against Israeli embassy officials was thwarted there last year] and Thailand, and a severe diplomatic setback in India, a powerful country that until now had refrained from joining the international oil embargo on Iran but is now reconsidering its position.

 

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