Well, I don’t know how surprising it is, but the Daily Telegraph reports that Israel has been engaged in a systematic effort to undermine Iran’s nuclear programme.

The Telegraph article, which has been making the rounds in Israel and elsewhere, cites a lot of unnamed military sources, which say that Israel is using a number of tactics including assassinations of Iranian scientists, sales of faulty parts and other miscellaneous subterfuge. Such activities, the article points out, are better than bombing in the current political environment.

Of course sabotaging the Iranians is a favourite sport of the world’s intelligence agencies. The CIA used a couple of Swiss engineers to do it. Hell, even the Dutch supposedly gave it a shot.

One place you won’t read about this secretive Israeli plot? The Tehran Times, or IRNA. Both sites are keeping quiet about the Telegraph story (in their English versions anyway).