The Washington Post is warmongering against Iran.

It’s informal CIA spokesman David Ignatius claims today that Iran is plotting to kill U.S. politicians:

Tehran has been plotting a violent retaliation campaign against the United States for years. Iran has conducted repeated assassination plots inside the United States ever since, without success, according to Justice Department documents.

Iran has applied similar methodology in most of these attacks. Iranians or their operatives who traveled to Iran have tried to recruit hit men from gangs or criminal groups. They’ve used complicated tradecraft to try to avoid detection in the United States, but, in each case, they have stumbled into the hands of the FBI.

Or the FBI has found some dimwits which fell for plots to entrap them … Prophets of War: Lockh... Hartung, William Best Price: $10.13 Buy New $14.99 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)

Another WaPo story claims that Iran wants to interference with U.S. elections:

National security officials and researchers noted a rise in “troublesome” Iranian influence operations designed to meddle in the U.S. presidential race.

The Trump campaign has suggested Iranian hackers leaked its documents to media organizations, but no proof has emerged.
… In its recent report, Microsoft spotlighted four websites, which the company said were covertly run by Iran, masquerading as legitimate news outlets that published articles on controversial subjects including the presidential election, LGBTQ+ rights and the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

These claims are just as bollocks as the last round of such about Russian interference in U.S. elections.

Each time such propaganda comes up is a sign that the U.S. is planning for some kind of conflict.

I doubt though that the U.S. wants a war with Iran. The news of U.S. ships and airplanes moved to the Middle East it is just trying to scare Iran into refraining from hitting Israel.

But Tehran will not do so. With the assassination of the Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh Israel killed a foreign state guest of Iran within Iran.

It demonstrated that Israel is not deterred from such acts. If Iran leaves this without consequences Israel would start to kill Iranian politicians left and right. It is therefore determined to seek revenge:

Fereshteh Sadeghi فرشته صادقی @fresh_sadegh – 13:53 UTC · Aug 14, 2024
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1- Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is determined to punish Israel for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. In a meeting on Wednesday he said “non-tactical retreat in any field -be it military, political or economic- will instigate divine wrath”.

2- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran’s enemies try to draw back Iranian nation by frightening them through a psychological warfare.
“Since the beginning of our revolution, they inculcated us with the fear of the U.S., the UK and the Zionist regime”.

3- Iran’s leader says “by inculcating fear and waging a psychological war, the enemy intends to force us to retreat. Our nation knows it can do great things by simply trusting itself and believing the enemy doesn’t have the upper hand, as it pretends to be superior.”

Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir – 12:47 UTC · Aug 14, 2024
The enemy’s purpose in using psychological warfare on the military front is to instil fear and force a retreat. The Quran tells us that a nontactical retreat in any field, whether it is military, political, or economic, will bring divine wrath.

4- All that said, the Ayatollah has already vowed a severe punishment for the Zionist regime of Israel.
By talking so, he literally states that Iran will face Allah’s wrath if it doesn’t respond to Israel’s crimes against Palestinians or reneges on its promise of revenge”.

What Iran will do, and when, is of course the question everyone is asking and for which there will be no answer until Iran strikes. Anatomy of the State Rothbard, Murray Best Price: $13.62 Buy New $17.28 (as of 03:26 UTC - Details)

The waiting alone has an effect:

As our nation waits passively for two weeks and counting to see whether, when and how devastatingly Iran and Hezbollah will choose to attack us, in order to “avenge” the killings of two terror chiefs bent on our destruction, we Israelis feel like the hapless, helpless playthings of other, more powerful forces. This is not an acceptable situation for the revived Jewish nation. And it points to the untenable lack of a strategy by our leadership for restoring national security more than 10 months after the October 7 Hamas invasion, slaughter and abductions.

Will Israel response to whatever Iran might do?

If it decides to do so, and if it causes severe damage, the war will further escalate into conflict which Israel, even with U.S. help, will not survive.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.