Has Israel killed Ali Larijani to keep the Iran war going?
India Today
The US-Israel war was meant to decapitate Iran's hardline leadership, but the killing of the "pragmatic" Ali Larijani might have done the opposite. By eliminating consensus-builder Larijani, the Israelis might have removed any scope of talks and pushed Iran into deeper hardline control. This could be a ploy to keep the war going.
It was meant to break Iran's hardline leadership, believed the Israelis and Americans. Instead, their actions might have hardened the Iranian regime further, which could bite the duo back. This is exactly what several experts are saying about the killing of Iran's secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, in an Israeli airstrike. Larijani had emerged as the key architect of the country's military and diplomatic strategy since the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the military brass on February 28.
With the killing of the "pragmatic" Larijani, the Israelis have narrowed the Iranian leadership circle, which might choose to prolong the war. Larijani was seen as one of the top Iranian officials who would have been open to talks with Iran's "adversaries", the US and Israel, who huddled to decapitate the leadership in Tehran.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently described Larijani as the "flesh and blood" of the Iranian clerical regime.
One of the primary objectives of the strikes on Iran was the removal of the hardline leadership. Ironically, the US and Israel might be pushing Iran into deeper hardline hands.
"With every assassination, the US and Israel are engineering greater radicalisation of Iran's leadership," said Vali Nasr, an expert on the Middle East.
The other theory, according to an expert, is that Israel has taken out Larijani to keep the war going. Israel doesn't want the war to stop before degrading Iran's military power to the extent that it is unable to strike it in decades.
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