Andrew Cockburn Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign by Aviva Guttmann. Cambridge, 336 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 009 50307 5 The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with a number of other leading officials, in the first few hours of the Iran War has confirmed that assassination is a routine tool of Israeli policy. Over the past two years, Israel has successfully targeted the military and political leadership of Hizbullah, Hamas and the Houthis, serially eliminating officials almost as soon as they step into the shoes…
