How Israel’s Mossad spy network infiltrated the heart of Iran before unprecedented attack to wreak havoc on air defense, missile infrastructure

( NYPost )

Israeli spies infiltrated the heart of Iran before Friday morning’s Operation Rising Lion airstrikes and damaged the country’s missile infrastructure and air defenses in a series of covert operations.

Intelligence agents with Israel’s Mossad smuggled in weaponry that destroyed defense measures inside Iran, which threatened Israeli military capabilities.

Agents deployed “significant measures” on large quantities of special weaponry and deployed them across Iran, targeting designated areas, an Israeli security source told The Post.

“Significant intelligence was gathered and surveillance was conducted to incriminate senior members of the Iranian defense establishment and nuclear scientists who were eliminated,” the source said. “This was carried out alongside a covert operational campaign targeting Iran’s strategic missile array.”

The stealth campaign was conducted in three separate operations at the same time as Israel launched its airstrikes, each targeting specific weaponry and defense systems in Iran.

Commando units deployed precision-guided weapons near Iran’s surface-to-air missile defenses and targeted the Iranian systems.

A second operation set up strike systems and mounted technology onto vehicles that were launched at Iranian air defense systems.

The final operation targeted Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers at a base outside Tehran.

Explosive-laden drones had been smuggled in and stashed in the heart of Iran before the unmanned aerial vehicles flew to the base and destroyed the launchers that had “posed a threat to Israeli strategic and civilian targets.”

The sabotage operations allowed Israel’s airstrikes to destroy radars and other surface-to-air defenses.

Nuclear plants and uranium enrichment facilities were also targeted.

Three high-ranking Iranian officials were killed in the operation along with at least two scientists.

Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of the country’s military, plus adviser to the supreme leader Ali Shamkhani, are believed to have been killed in the barrage, according to the Times of Israel.