You mean Iranian failures? Tin foil conspiracists are now saying Israel attacked the wife of one of their defense diplomats LOL
Nightstrike, you are no better to blame the IRI pending a thorough investigation by a qualified and impartial authority. Your snarky one-liners are not helpful to any meaningful discussion on the possibilities.
You're thinking in very concrete terms if you believe the only options are the IRI was directly responsible or the state government of Israel.
There are many terrorist organizations which recruit Iranians, like the MEK, and are strongly against the IRI. Furthermore, the MEK receives support from the Israelis. Now, this is just an example.If the Israelis are providing a terrorist organization support, and can provide them counterfeit Iranian passports to boot, then it's a win-win situation for them whenever they conduct an operation and Iran is blamed.
You are correct that Iran may have wanted either revenge or to discourage further assassinations by 'getting even' with Israel.
But when we consider motive, the first official of any faction to condemn Iran, and imply it was an action of the state of Iran and not a fringe group, was the PM of Israel, Netanyahu. He clearly gained from this attack, and if Iran had been successful it would have still been him playing the victim card before anything has been confirmed, it would still be a PR victory for him. Your view would have more credibility if they managed to kill any Israelis in the attack, which is not the case.
Secondly, we know the bomber is Iranian only by his ID information found on his body. But assassinations and bombings, when carried out by state actors, rarely have the assassins use real IDs. We know for a fact that Israel has been provided with the technology to generate convincing counterfeit IDs and passports. Confirmation of this was the botched assassination attempt of the Hezbollah official in the UAE.
Lastly, as far as conspiracies go, I agree we should avoid conspiracy theories, while more reasonable solutions are present. However, sometimes conspiracies are confirmed. There exists some historical precedent of false flag operations carried out by Israel in Egypt, where bombs were planted in US govt owned facilities in order to create tension between the US and Egypt and bring the US into Israel's war with Egypt.
It's possible the IRI was behind it all, but nightstrike, pending any further empirical evidence which confirms beyond reasonable doubt the IRI's involvement, at this stage it doesn't look likely this haphazard assassination turned battle with the local police was an action by Iran.
There's a lot of things Israel could do to help win support of the masses, like a reasonable peace treaty with the palestinians, they could also stop threatening Iran and play the victim card against the mad mullahs who are hell bent on destroying Israel. Eitherway Whoever it was its sick to attack a woman let alone a diplomat who under accepted norms would be immune from such acts of terror.
You're a bit confused here, nightstrike. You seem to answer your own question.
Your implication is if the Israelis wanted pity, there's plenty they could do instead of supporting terrorists and blaming Iran. But you seem to be ignoring that the Israelis have been looking to build a case for bombing and attacking Iran with western supplied technology.
You're right, they are not looking for a peaceful resolution with the PA and IRI, they want to make sure they're the only ones with the nukes and they know that nobody is willing to fight that battle for them because no government official even in the west is stupid enough to drink the kool aid about Iran being a state apocalyptic cult.
This is one way to do that. They're not looking for peace, they want a casus belli to force the US on board because they're incompetent and have always been, without receiving a helping hand from technology and military aid from the US.