{"id":1944,"date":"2025-06-13T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderncryptotrader.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/inside-israels-secret-war-in-iran-mossad-commandos-hidden-drones-and-the-strike-that-stunned-tehran\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:27:38","slug":"inside-israels-secret-war-in-iran-mossad-commandos-hidden-drones-and-the-strike-that-stunned-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moderncryptotrader.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/inside-israels-secret-war-in-iran-mossad-commandos-hidden-drones-and-the-strike-that-stunned-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Israel\u2019s secret war in Iran: Mossad commandos, hidden drones and the strike that stunned Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s overnight strike on Iran was not only one of the most ambitious aerial campaigns in recent history, it was the result of years of covert planning, surveillance and infiltration by Israeli intelligence. <\/p>\n

While dozens of fighter jets bombed nuclear and military targets across Iran early Friday morning, the groundwork had long been laid by Mossad agents working in lockstep with the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

Code-named ‘Am Kelavi’ (Rising Lion), the preemptive operation was the product of unprecedented coordination between the Israeli air force, the Military Intelligence Directorate, Mossad and the country\u2019s defense industries. For years, they worked ‘shoulder to shoulder’ to gather the intelligence files needed to eliminate Iran\u2019s most sensitive military and nuclear assets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A senior Israeli security official told Fox News Digital, ‘The Mossad worked with a huge number of people\u2014a mass of agents deep inside Iran, operating at the highest level of penetration imaginable. Some of these agents were retrained as commando fighters to carry out mission-critical operations.’<\/p>\n

That work culminated in what the official described as a three-layered strike. ‘We eliminated vast areas of Iran\u2019s surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missile infrastructure, a massive number of senior scientists, and large portions of their air defense systems.’<\/p>\n

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‘We established a drone base inside Iran, and at zero hour, Mossad operatives retrieved them from hiding spots. We placed precision missiles on numerous vehicles and embedded additional missiles throughout the country, hidden inside rocks. We activated this entire array in precise coordination with the Israeli air force.’<\/p>\n

Israeli jets launched simultaneous strikes on dozens of sites, including Iran\u2019s primary uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. Located 1,500 kilometers from Israeli territory, Natanz had long been a critical part of Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson, described it as an underground compound containing multi-level centrifuge halls and electrical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

‘We inflicted significant damage on this site,’ Defrin said. ‘This facility was used by the IRGC to advance Iran\u2019s project for acquiring nuclear weapons.’<\/p>\n

Avner Golov, vice president of the Mind Israel think tank, told Fox News Digital, ‘The biggest success was hitting the Natanz facility and neutralizing Iran\u2019s first wave of retaliation\u2014the automatic response. <\/p>\n

‘We took out their opening move\u2014the ballistic missiles that were meant to launch immediately, and the drones that were already on the way. The fact that scientists were eliminated\u2014that\u2019s the true achievement.’<\/p>\n

However, far beyond the airstrikes, Israeli sources revealed that a massive intelligence and sabotage campaign was unfolding in parallel inside Iran. A former senior Israeli official told Fox News Digital, ‘There was activity inside Iran\u2014an insane level of intelligence work.<\/p>\n

‘They located the entire command center of the Iranian Air Force. All the commanders were together, and they were taken out in real time.’<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

According to the same official, Iran\u2019s military had gathered its top air force brass in one facility as part of a publicized drill meant to project deterrence. Instead, it exposed them. ‘It was partly luck, but also planned\u2014the ability to see them in real time and strike with precision,’ he said. ‘It\u2019s a reminder of what happened in Lebanon\u2014taking out contaminated leadership with surgical intelligence.’<\/p>\n

That operation in Lebanon, often referred to as the ‘pagers’ operation, saw Israel infiltrate and sabotage Hezbollah\u2019s command network using Chinese-made radios embedded with explosives. The current operation, Israeli experts say, was broader, deeper, and more strategically impactful.<\/p>\n

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‘I think this is so much more substantial,’ said Nadav Eyal, an Israeli journalist and analyst for ‘Yediot Ahronot’ newspaper. ‘What was done here was much more than the James Bond kind of type of pagers operation. It\u2019s more about the infrastructure, intelligence needed to read devastating strikes on military installations, and the ingenuity of its intelligence services\u2014electronic surveillance, things that it\u2019s been developing for many years now.’<\/p>\n

The Mossad\u2019s infiltration campaign involved the quiet smuggling of sophisticated weaponry into Iran, hidden inside vehicles and embedded near strategic targets. In central Iran, precision-guided weapons were planted near surface-to-air missile batteries and launched on command. Disguised vehicles were also used to destroy Iran\u2019s air defense systems at the moment of the strike. Meanwhile, explosive drones positioned near Tehran were activated to destroy long-range missile launchers at the Esfajabad base.<\/p>\n

All of it took place under the watch of Iranian intelligence and succeeded without detection.<\/p>\n

Israeli defense officials now say the mission represents one of the most successful intelligence-military integrations in the country\u2019s history. If the Lebanon pagers stunned the world, the message from this strike is even clearer: nowhere is out of reach.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n

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