Opinion | Strikingly Iran is giving tacit approval to bounties on the heads of Americans even as it negotiates with US and European governments over a possible new deal on nuclear development | Peter Hartcher
and the former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo were unveiled last week.
The targeting of serving and former US officials “is a line that has not been crossed before,” says Behnam Taleblu, an Iran analyst at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a non-partisan think tank in Washington. “I think it’s quite clear they won’t stop till a US official has been killed.” But isn’t Biden’s calculus understandable, I put to Bolton. If he can potentially protect entire cities and countries from nuclear coercion or even attack, wouldn’t that justify the risk of assassination of some individual Americans?
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