(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Israeli and Turkish intelligence agencies have been devoting immense efforts to prevent a terror attack against Israeli citizens in Istanbul. According to briefings by Israeli defense officials, the Iranians are so desperate for some achievement that possible targets include almost every Israeli now in Turkey. It seems that the Iranian efforts greatly intensified after last month's killing, attributed to Israel, of Col. Hassan Khodaei from the Revolutionary Guards. Since then, a string of other incidents has taken place, including the killing of Revolutionary Guards officers, Iranian engineers and scientists across the country. Even though Israel's links to these events were for the most part marginal or non-existent (something known to the Iranians), the extensive publicity hiked the pressure on Iran to retaliate.
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