James Bond is not just fantasy.
The French and the US do it. The Russians and the British do it. Iran and the Chinese and the Saudis do it. Iraq and Syria do it.
All nations give their agents a licence to act, in their own self-interest, even if against their own laws, when they are in foreign parts.
The Indians and the Pakistanis and the Afghans probably do it. So do most EU countries even if they would never acknowledge it. As long as nation states last, there is no nation not prepared to defend its nationhood.
In the latest case it is almost certainly Israeli agents who have eliminated a perceived threat.
Iran’s top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran
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