The Costs of Illegal Assassinations

The way to keep Iran’s nuclear program restricted is by persuading the Iranian government to agree to restrictions, and that won’t be accomplished by murdering people and blowing up facilities.

There was an extensive report on the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Israeli government in The New York Times that came out a few days ago. It detailed how the Mossad used a remote-controlled robot to fire a machine gun to kill the nuclear scientist last December:

The straight-out-of-science-fiction story of what really happened that afternoon and th…