Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Perhaps it's objectionable to some, the joinder of these two items. But I could not resist it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/iran-intelligence-minister-esmail-khatib-killed-israel-claims 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OdurVND-DSs 

UPDATE: Iran's former uranium enrichment negotiating team has not been seen online by Crabgrass to have yet suffered loss of life after the lead negotiator, Iran's Foreign Minister, declared the time for talks being over immediately after start of the war. Possibly there was targeting that failed, or a death went unreported, but aside from the foreign minister the other negotiation team members likely are not highly placed or influential government officials. Iran appears to have a diverse and inclusive government membership to where governing can continue even with the selective Israeli human strikes.

It appears the Israelis have a priority structure of some kind for their killing strikes, and either the US greenlights some Israeli choices or Israel acts wholly independent of US aims or constraints. 

Each belligerent has seemed to do separate targeting. With the US concentrating upon difficult or hardened targets of the Iranian military, while Israel includes government officials in its attacks; something which the US appears not to do.