🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran's military publicly warned the U.S. and Israel not to touch the funeral... That such a warning was even necessary tells you everything.
Karen Kwiatkowski didn't dismiss the fear.
Assassination has been a core Israeli foreign policy tool for decades, she said, and after Katz's public threat against Mojtaba, she's certain the pros and cons are being weighed in Tel Aviv right now.
With Medvedev, Iraq's president, and delegations from dozens of countries attending, striking the ceremony itself would be diplomatic suicide.
Her sharper worry was the calendar around it.
The week runs July 4 to 9, full of smaller gatherings where a target stands isolated, and she put the real danger on the RETURN flights, after the dignitaries scatter.
The New York Times report that Washington warned Tehran of a possible Israeli hit on its negotiators, which Netanyahu's office flatly denies as fabrication, only sharpened that read: if the US couldn't guarantee the safety of a delegation flying to meet its own vice president, who protects anyone leaving a funeral?
Her bottom line: the threat may well be theater designed to poison the mourning.
But with this track record, nobody can afford to treat it that way.
@karen4the6th
