Israel-Iran Covert Spy Games Become More Dangerous

Bruce Riedel analyzes the state of the covert war between Israel and Iran. Escalating aggression from Hezbollah and countermeasures by Mossad suggest that this “spy versus spy” game is getting harder to contain. Riedel favors ousting the Alawite regime in Damascus and mobilizing the Syrian opposition around Turkish leadership.
Police and forensic officials examine a damaged Israeli embassy car after an explosion in New Delhi February 13, 2012. Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, the foreign ministry said, with a bomb going off in New Delhi but a second device in Tbilisi was defused. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Police and forensic officials examine a damaged Israeli embassy car after an explosion in New Delhi 13/02/2012. - REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma
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Bruce Riedel

The attack Monday in New Delhi on an Israeli diplomat’s car — in which the wife of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) representative in India was wounded — apparently represents the latest escalation in the covert war between Israel and Iran.

Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah have been engaged in a hot spy-versus-spy war for years. Now it is getting hotter and threatens to produce a larger conflict.

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