War with Iran for Israel

In this interview with Christ Matthews on "Hardball," former CIA officer Robert Baer and MSNBC's chief correspondent in Iran Richard Engel both report that Israel, through its most recent murder of a 32-year-old Iranian scientist and similar violent actions, is trying to provoke a response from Iran that will then give Israel a pretext under which to attack Iran. They note that this would then cause a major spike in oil prices and would be extremely damaging to the US.

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