Polonium-210: A pretty good way to horribly murder somebody

You could think about coercive means to encourage Israel to join, e.g. sanctions, relentless political pressure, targeted computer viruses, targeted assassinations of workers at Dimona etc.

Given that Iran is a sovereign nation too, I do get a bit of cognitive dissonance when I think about how much pressure our governments put on Iran - and there seem to be plenty of dirty tricks employed against individual Iranians - exploding motorcycles and boobytrapped cars used to take out anyone identified as key in the Iranian nuclear programme.

Let’s play name that dead Iranian:

  • Ardeshir Hossein-Pour (involved in uranium processing, mysteriously asphyxiated)
  • Massoud Ali Mohammadi (professor of physics, remote-controlled bomb outside home)
  • Majid Shahriari (Nuclear engineer, killed by bomb attached to car window by motorcycle in traffic)
  • Fereydoun Abbasi (Nuclear physicist, survived car bombing attempt)
  • Darioush Rezaei-Nejad (degree candidate, sponsored by Iranian defence, shot dead)
  • General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam (lead Iran’s ballistic missile programme, killed by bomb in Tehran)
  • Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan (Nuclear chemist, bomb attached to car window)

And now somebody just assassinated the Iranian tasked with leading cyber warfare efforts in that country.

The only conclusion you can draw is that some western / Israeli aligned influence is sponsoring terrorism (gasp!) in order to wipe out inconvenient Iranians.