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Iranian officials said to suspect Israel behind mysterious blasts across country
2025-07-24
[IsraelTimes] NYT says explosions and fires at infrastructure sites, apartments, and factories have some believing Mossad is working to sow chaos and fear

Iranian officials believe that explosions across the country over the past month are acts of sabotage by Israel, according to a Tuesday report.

While officially the mysterious blasts hitting apartment buildings, oil facilities, and factories have been blamed on aging infrastructure, three Iranian officials, including a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, told The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

they suspect Israel is to blame.

A European official who deals with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
also told the newspaper he suspects Israel is involved.

Recent times have seen one or two such incidents a day. Some locations involved key infrastructure, such as a fire that killed one person over the weekend, while others, at apartments and a shoe factory, are sowing a feeling of chaos, the report said.

The Iranian officials who spoke to the Times did not provide evidence for their claims and said authorities are not formally accusing Israel, as that would put them in a position of needing to respond.

Publicly, officials have blamed the incidents on a range of causes, including gas leaks, garbage fires, and dilapidated infrastructure. The national gas company has put out figures it says show no increase in gas leaks compared to the number of incidents last year.

Some Iranians have mocked the situation. A photoshopped image circulating on social media showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the uniform of Iran’s national gas company.

Israeli officials declined to comment for the report. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
itself appeared happy to ride on the wave of suspicions and fears in Iran.

A Persian-language account on social media platform X purportedly run by the Mossad, which a source in the agency told the Times belongs to the spy organization, has also remarked on the earth-shattering kabooms.

One post advised Iranians to burn Esphand, an incense traditionally believed to provide protection against evil spirits and curses. Another post earlier this month remarked, "Explosion after explosion. Someone needs to check what’s going on there. Too many random incidents are happening."

Last month, Mossad chief David Barnea said that Israel inflicted significant damage on Iran but indicated that Jerusalem needs to continue its operations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

The ongoing chaos followed a 12-day war last month, which began with a sweeping Israeli assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program that Israel said was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.

Iranian authorities have said about 1,000 people were killed.

Iran retaliated to Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 28 people and maimed over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Aging infrastructure? Hah! More like exploding Zionist spy squirrels.
Posted by: SteveS   2025-07-24 13:20  

#2  A lot of Iranian hate the regime, probably upward of 60%.

They have no way to effectuate change legally.

Personally, I would like to have the homes of notable regime supporters set on fire rather than hitting factories but whatever.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2025-07-24 10:26  

#1  The idea that Ahura Mazda had enough of Ahriman's "religion" (Islam) doesn't seem to penetrate.
Posted by: Grom the Affective   2025-07-24 04:24  

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