How Mossad secretly prepared Israel’s attack from the interior of Iran

The attack launched on Friday by Israel against military leaders, nuclear scientists, and sensitive facilities from Iran depended on the activation of intelligence teams, pre-posted weapons, and infiltrated resources that had long been asleep in Iranian territory, the Washington Post reveals.

When on Friday the Israeli planes crossed the sky into nuclear and military facilities in Iran, secret teams of commands, swarms of armed drones and hidden explosives In ordinary vehicles they emerged from their hiding places inside Iran and went to their targets.

Between the targets were commanders military, nine nuclear scientists and leaders of Revolutionary Guard Elite From Iran-Many of them “still in their beds, in their homes,” according to a high Israeli security official, who provided the US newspaper previously not published details.

At dawn, Members of the intimate circle of Ayatollah Ali KhameneiIran’s supreme leader, and several key figures from the country’s nuclear nucleus, were dead.

In some cases, the victims were drone -hit with explosives and other devices that opened holes on the sides From apartments to skyscrapers and other structures in the center of Tehran, according to Israeli and Western security officials, as well as Iran’s statements on the known lows.

To execute the more ambitious and sophisticated attack In the long history of antagonism between the main powers of the Middle East, Israeli secret agents established a drone base in Iranian territory deep.

In addition, the agents count They recruited unhappy Iranians To support their cause and smuggled weaponry systems through enemy lines, among other spy tactics that allowed Israel to lead their surprise attack.

The operation, called “Rising Lion” (“Lion on the rise”) by the Israeli government, it underwent activation of clandestine intelligence teamspre-posted weaponry and military resources that They were asleep in Iranian territory during weeks or months.

The strategy is very similar to that used by Ukraine In the attack with drones that at the beginning of the month in Russian territory, and that Mossad herself, Israel’s intelligence service, used in the attacks with pagers that in September, killing dozens of Hezbollah militants.

The selective murders were part of A “FIRST VACANCY” Non -Attack of Attack intended for “Killing decision makers” in the revolutionary guard And in the Iran regime while “they were in places we knew,” the Washington Post told the senior Israeli security official.

Israelite employees, who highlight the success of the attacksthey spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the confidentiality of the operation, which expanded in the following hours to include air and missile attacks on nuclear facilities and Iranian military.

Among the dead in the early stages were the major-general Mohammad Bagheri, Military Commander of Iran; The Major General Hossein SalamiChief Commander of the Revolutionary Guard, the main paramilitary force of Iran; and the physical Mohammad mehdi tehranchiPresident of the Islamic University in Tehran.

The murders were part of a operation in various phaseswhich has been accelerated in recent months but it was “in preparation for a long time“It required a“bold and sophisticated planning“As well as” tactical maneuvers of fun, “a second high Israeli security official told the post.

The final phases of preparation were unfolded while negotiations nuclear between the US and Iran, and involved Mossad agents recruited to “smuggle large amounts of special weaponry For Iran, deploy it across the country and launch it toward designated targets, ”says one of the Israeli employees.

As “elimination operations”It was one of the areas where Mossad intervened in the operation. The agency worked“ shoulder to shoulder for years ”with Israel’s defense forces to Gather Dossiers about Key Figures of Iranian leadership, including locations of bunkers and homes.

More recently, Mossad Command Units began to implement “Precision Guided Weapon Systems in open areas ”near the Iran’s Terra-Air Missile Batteries Eliminate anti -aircraft capabilitiesIn the early hours of the attacks, he told the post an Israeli security official.

Mossad still established inside Iran, long before the attack“An explosive drone base” and weapons that were activated and directed to Land-Terra missile launching sites at the Iranian Sfajabad base near Tehran, the official said.

To neutralize other air defenses that could be used against Israelite jets, they were “secretly implemented attack systems and advanced vehicle technologies, ”an apparent reference to hidden explosives that could be remotely detonated to damage air defense systems.

The Israeli security official provided additional details about this aspect of the operation, which aimed Pules used to move missiles Iranians for launching sites. “Each truck that eliminates, eliminates four missiles“Said the employee.

The strategic impact of the operation will take days or weeks to be evaluatedsaid western security officials, who observed that it is too early to say whether the attack will represent more than a temporary setback in Iran’s alleged efforts to Acquire nuclear weapons capabilities.

Iranian employees deny that Iran will be trying to develop nuclear weapons and say Your nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.

The simultaneous murders of so many key figures of leadership seemed to expose a Surprising inability of Iran to protect The leaders of their military and scientific establishments of an opponent who has been trying to have been aiming for these individuals for years.

Israeli employees warned on Friday that the beheading campaign will continue. According to one of the sources of the post, the Mossad sent messages second -line commanders and regime officials who will probably be chosen to replace the dead.

“Some received a letter under the door; some received a telephone call; some received a call in the number of their spouses” – messages that, says the Israeli employee, are intended to make it clear that “We know where they are and that we have access to them“.