The Israeli spy agency also successfully surveilled senior Iranian military commanders, security officials, and nuclear scientists, allowing the IDF to assassinate them en masse
Israel’s Mossad quietly laid the groundwork for the country’s massive military campaign against Iran by building a “secret explosive drone base” near Tehran that destroyed a bevy of ballistic missile launchers, preventing Tehran from quickly retaliating against the Jewish state.
Mossad, Israel’s top spy agency, released footage early Friday of its drones conducting precision strikes on Iranian air defense systems and ballistic missile launchers at a military installation near Tehran. Israel also smuggled weaponized vehicles into Iran well before its opening military salvo began on Thursday, revealing that the Jewish state had prepared for the operation under the nose of Tehran’s hardline leadership.
The Mossad spy agency reveals footage showing its actions against Iranian air defenses and ballistic missile launchers in Iran this morning.
According to an Israeli official, the Mossad built a secret explosive drone base in Iran for this morning’s operation.
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Mossad’s stealth sabotage campaign reportedly “took out Iran’s air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action” to launch hundreds of strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites, its senior military commanders, and scientists, the Times of Israel reported. “A third covert effort involved Mossad commandos deploying precision missiles near anti-aircraft sites in central Iran.”
Israeli spies also successfully surveilled senior Iranian military commanders, security officials, and scientists tied to its nuclear weapons program, allowing the Israel Defense Forces to assassinate them en masse, according to Israeli press reports.
Mossad commandos deployed “operational systems of precision-guided weapons, in open areas near the location of Iranian surface-to-air missile systems (SAM)” immediately before Israel launched its air campaign, an Israeli security source told the country’s N12 News. As Israeli planes began to attack inside Iran on Thursday evening, these stealth systems were activated, training precision guided missiles at targets Tehran would have used in an attempt to thwart Israel’s operation.
A parallel operation saw Mossad agents planting “sophisticated attack systems and technologies on vehicles” in the lead up to Israel’s attack. Once the operations had started, “the weapons were launched and completely destroyed the targets of the attack – the Iranian defense systems,” according to Israeli reporter Amit Segal.
Mossad established a “base of explosive drones” inside the country “long before the attack” commenced without Iran noticing, Segal reported. As Israeli planes entered Iranian air space, “the explosive drones were activated,” destroying a cache of surface-to-surface missile launchers stored at the Asfaqabad military base near Tehran.
The pre-attack intelligence gathering laid the groundwork for Israel to systematically assassinate several senior Iranian commanders, including the head of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami. Hours before his death, Salami claimed he was “fully ready for any scenario.”
Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei addressed his nation on Friday, vowing that Tehran’s “armed forces will make the scoundrel Zionist regime miserable.” In a separate written statement, Khamenei confirmed that “a number of military commanders [and] nuclear scientists” were “martyred” during Israel’s opening strike. Reports indicate that Israel eliminated at least 20 senior Iranian commanders, along with six nuclear scientists.
“Their successors and colleagues will immediately carry on their duties, God willing,” Khamenei wrote. “With this crime, the Zionist regime has prepared a bitter and painful fate for itself—and it will undoubtedly receive it.”
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, said he gave Iran fair warning that an attack was imminent, but that Tehran would not back down from its hardline negotiating position in diplomatic talks over a revamped nuclear deal.
“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen,” he said. “They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
