But Mohammadi was killed last Tuesday morning and the failed attack in Amman was a mere 60 hours later on Thursday evening.
The newspaper said Jor-dan’s intelligence was “investigating the possibility” that Iranian diplomats had brought the explosives into Jordan in a diplomatic bag, which is not subject to customs inspection. But the newspaper’s own phraseology made it clear that was only a theory and not a conclusion grounded in any evidence.
It wasn’t clear how Iran could plan a bombing, organize the bomb makers and planters, and move the explosives across the Middle East all in just 60 hours.
The Jerusalem Post also the Amman attack was “apparently carried out by local Al-Qaeda supporters who received money and explosives from Iran.” However, links between Iran and the staunchly anti-Shiite Al-Qaeda are widely doubted by many analysts.
The Jerusalem Post noted that Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar last week publicly pledged “revenge” against Israel and the United States for killing Ali-Moham-madi.
The newspaper also noted that President Ahmadi-nejad last week also blamed Israel. Ahmadi-nejad said, “One can see the level of the enemy’s grudge in the way [Ali-Mohammadi] was assassinated. The method of bombing was a Zionist one.”
Ali-Mohammadi was killed by a bomb attached to a bike parked near his car and set off by remote control. Such roadside bombs, however, are not typical of Israeli attacks on its enemies. Assassins with pistols have been the most common mode. Roadside bombs have been the norm for attacks on American forces in Iraq, and the United States says many of those bombs originated in Iran.
The commander of the Basij, Brig. Gen. Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, also pledged revenge last week, but he named only the United States. Others have focused on Britain or the Mojahedin-e Khalq. Everyone’s favored ogre appears to be to blame for the bombing that killed Ali-Mohammadi. But the police, Intelligence Ministry and Judiciary have not blamed anyone yet and say they are still investigating.
Last Thursday, a bomb, apparently triggered by remote control, went off in Amman as a convoy of cars from the Israeli embassy passed by. No one was injured.