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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-iran-mossad.html
Israel's Mossad Blames Iran for Tanker Attacks
(New York Times) David M. Halbfinger - Yossi Cohen, the chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, said Monday that Iran was directly responsible for the repeated attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, along with other targets in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. "They are a single campaign initiated by a single party. I can say to you with certainty, from the best sources of Israeli and Western intelligence, that Iran is behind these attacks. They were authorized by the Iranian government leadership." "Through these attacks, Iran is trying to say to the world - a world that is afraid of escalation - that if the sanctions are not lifted, it will cause serious damage to the world oil economy. This is an irresponsible Iranian policy that could ignite a fire in the region."