A suicide bombing against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria was a rare "success" for Iran's operatives. Photo: REUTERS
9:51PM BST 07 Aug 2012
The powerful Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps, its infamous expeditionary unit, the Quds Force,
and the network of Hezbollah operatives it supports around the world are
starting to look like the proverbial gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
They’re still dangerous, to be sure, but a series of recent incidents widely
attributed to these groups suggest that as spies, assassins and terrorists,
they just aren’t what they used to be. And Tehran is getting worried.
According to sources in the Iranian capital, concerns about IRGC inadequacies
are fueling the bitter infighting among Iran’s elites at a critical time:
the war in Syria threatens to bring down Iran’s most vital Arab ally, the
confrontation with Israel and the West over Iran’s nuclear program has
provoked devastating sanctions, and a military attack on Iran by Israel
still looms as a distinct possibility. This is a bad moment for the Iranians
to discover their fearsome covert operatives are essentially incompetent.
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