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To once again remind folks of Prof Christopher Andrew’s long running admonishment that the intelligence profession underestimates religious motivations and courses of action, assessing IRGC ballistic missile fires targeting Al Aqsa and Temple Mount is almost certainly not about public opinion in the Persian bazaar and on the Arab street. There is a too often overlooked apocalyptic impulse stemming from the regime’s favoured theological interpretations. This attack is entirely consistent with such beliefs - not merely as a specific countervalue symbolic target for instrumental motivation - but as a kind of catalytic escalation attempt anticipating eschatological higher order effects.
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