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Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role (reuters.com)
3 points by geox 6 days ago
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> US analysts investigating possible Russian link to attacks on CIA facilities

> Russia has provided targeting and other technical support to Iran during the war

How dare they do to us what we do to them!

"But after a C.I.A. expert identified the refineries’ Achilles’ heel — a coupler that, if destroyed, would keep a refinery offline for weeks — the drone campaign would take off. According to one U.S. intelligence estimate, the energy strikes would cost the Russian economy as much as $75 million a day.

The C.I.A. would eventually assist with Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian “shadow fleet” vessels in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean."[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-us-r...