A “rapid” trial against all those who would have collaborated with “the Zionist regime”: Monday, June 16, the head of the Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeï, asked for convictions without delay for the guilty of espionage on behalf of Israel, in full climbing between Tehran and Tel Aviv. Four days after Israel’s unprecedented attack on Iran, the revolution guardian regime tries to understand how an offensive of such magnitude could be facilitated, and seeks the managers.
Iranian police thus arrested two people suspected of having links with the Israeli external intelligence service (Mossad), the country’s media reported on Sunday. “Two members of the Mossad terrorist team who made bombs, explosives, explosive traps and electronic equipment were arrested” in the province of Alborz, west of Tehran, reported the Iranian news agency Tasnim, citing a police spokesperson.
And for good reason, it has been years since Israel was preparing for this operation, piercing the Iranian defense on its own soil, starting with “the construction of a drone base in Iranian territory, the smuggling of precision weapons systems or the entry of Israeli commandos”, indicates the Times of IsraelIsraeli security source.
At Wall Street Journalpeople aware of the operation also indicated that Israel “has spent months passing by parts to assemble hundreds of drones equipped with explosives – in suitcases, trucks and shipping containers – as well as ammunition that can be drawn from unmanned platforms”.
“Neutralize the Iranian defense”
Small armed teams of this equipment were thus deployed near the Iranian air defense and launch sites, in order to neutralize them at the time of the Israeli attack on Friday. “The operation carried out by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, aimed to neutralize threats to Israeli combat aircraft and neutralize missiles before they can be drawn on Israeli cities,” said the Wsj.
This information could explain why, a few days after still, Iran has so much difficulty responding to the Israeli offensive, which has targeted hundreds of nuclear and military sites. Israeli army spokesperson Effie Defrin said on Saturday that Israel had attacked targets in the night in Tehran with “70 combat planes that spent more than two hours in the airspace of the Iranian capital”, “the deepest distance traveled so far in Iran”.
Mossad is not at its first try. Last summer, Israel killed Hamas’ political leader, Ismaïl Haniyeh, introducing a bomb in his highly watched room of a guest house of the revolution guards. This long -standing preparation also recalls that of the bipers trapped in Lebanon, which had neutralized members of Hezbollah and made more than 2,000 injured.
Preparation “daring”
Still according to the Wall Street JournalMossad has brought in the parts used for the manufacture of its “commercial channels”, while “agents on the ground collected ammunition and distributed them to the teams”. These operations were done in “a disruptive spirit, by means of daring preparation and surgical functioning of advanced technologies, special forces and agents operating in Iranian territory without being spotted”, detailed a security manager at Times of Israel.
Mossad is also unusually talkative about its operations, communicating about its activities in Iran. “Operations – and make them public – have a significant side effect. No one in Iran, in the upper levels, can now be sure not to be known to Israeli intelligence services and not to be a potential target,” said Sima Shine, formerly responsible for the head of the Iranian Mossad office.
Israeli strikes left at least 224 people dead and more than a thousand injured in Iran, according to an official assessment established on Sunday. The Iranian Missile Salvas rippled in Israel have killed 24 people since Friday, according to the office of the Israeli Prime Minister. Eleven people lost their lives this Monday, including eight killed overnight in Petah-Tikva, Bnei-Brak and Haifa. The revolution guards, an ideological army of the Islamic Republic, said that these strikes had allowed “missiles to successfully reach the targets” in Israel and promised “more devastating” operations.