“Iranian spies offered a people-smuggler $200,000 (around £158,290) to assassinate two news presenters codenamed “the bride and the groom” outside their London studio, to show critics of the regime they “could do harm to them at any time.”
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Had they succeeded I would have thought Iran petty. As they failed they now look petty and incompetent. Great states don’t go about trying to “send messages” by arbitrarily murdering people for stupid reasons.
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“Iranian spies offered a people-smuggler $200,000 (around £158,290) to assassinate two news presenters codenamed “the bride and the groom” outside their London studio, to show critics of the regime they “could do harm to them at any time.”
….”
Had they succeeded I would have thought Iran petty. As they failed they now look petty and incompetent. Great states don’t go about trying to “send messages” by arbitrarily murdering people for stupid reasons.