Showing posts with label nuclear weapons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear weapons. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2025

Israel’s Mossad operated covert drone base within Iran, struck targets from inside the country - All Israel News

 

Breathtaking revelation: Israel’s Mossad operated covert drone base within Iran, struck targets from inside the country

Mossad smuggled several weapon systems into Iran which participated in attack

A building damaged following Israeli strikes in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025. (Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)

The Israeli foreign intelligence service, Mossad, participated in the overnight strikes against the Iranian regime by activating covert units operating within the country on Friday morning, according to a briefing by an Israeli security source.

The source revealed that the Mossad conducted three major operations to assist the broader strikes against the Iranian regime, all of which were prepared over the past years by infiltrating and hiding weapon systems within Iranian territory.

When the Israeli Air Force began striking Iranian leaders, nuclear sites, and military installations, the Mossad’s covert infrastructure sprang into action.

The focus of the years-long intelligence preparations by the Mossad and the IDF was to prepare detailed files that would allow the quick elimination of large parts of the Iranian ballistic missile and air defense systems.

The entire operation required "groundbreaking thinking, bold planning and surgical operation of advanced technologies, special forces and agents operating in the heart of Iran while completely evading the eyes of local intelligence," the military source told Ynet News.

In what may be the most shocking operation, the source revealed that the Mossad established a secret drone base within Iranian territory.

When the Israeli offensive began, the drones were launched to destroy surface-to-surface missile launchers (SSM) located at a base near Tehran, which was planned to be used to destroy strategic and civilian targets in Israel as part of the Iranian retaliation.

The reported operation is reminiscent of a Ukrainian intelligence operation last week, in which the Ukrainian intelligence smuggled drones into Russia before launching them at strategic bombers deep within the country.

In another operation, Mossad commando teams deployed operational systems of precision-guided munitions in open areas in central Iran, which had been smuggled into the country beforehand.

The weapons were deployed near Iranian surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, which could potentially threaten Israeli aircraft.

When the Israeli offensive began, these weapons were activated, launching precise missiles at several targets and eliminating the threat to Israel’s Air Force.

Lastly, in another operation aiming to guarantee Israel’s freedom of action in Iranian skies, the Mossad deployed “sophisticated attack systems” and “vehicle-born technologies” which were used to destroy Iranian air defense systems.

The mention of “vehicle-born” weapons could be connected to unconfirmed reports that a similar system had been used by Israel to kill the top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020.

At the time, reports suggested he was killed by a remote-controlled machine gun mounted on a pickup truck.

"This is Israel's Jericho wall against a regime that has also financed and directed Hamas and Hezbollah in recent months to militarily rehabilitate them and recreate October 7, and this time not only from Gaza," the source concluded.

"The achievement is greater than a surprise attack because here there was no surprise – the Iranians also knew and heard about the upcoming attack, prepared and still suffered a major blow, which is only in its beginning," he added.

The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Netanyahu: Iran's 'Zero Breakout' Sooner than Later

Netanyahu: Iran's 'Zero Breakout' Sooner than Later

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's breakout time for nuclear weapons production begins when the framework agreement is finalized, not in 13 or 14 years as President Obama said Tuesday.
"So essentially, we're purchasing 13, 14, 15 years assurances that the breakout is at least a year -- that -- that if they decided to break the deal, kick out all the inspectors, break the seals and go for a bomb, we'd have over a year to respond," the president told NPR.
"What is a more relevant fear would be that in year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that can enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero," Obama said.
In a videotaped statement aired on Israeli media, Netanyahu said he agrees with the president that breakout time will be zero when the deal expires. But that's not, he says, more than a decade away.
Netanyahu said again he's not opposed to a deal with Iran, just a bad deal -- one that allows Iran to achieve "industrial-grade capability in producing nuclear bombs."
Iran desperately wants relief from economic sanctions, which have had a profound effect on its economy. The sanctions provide the leverage to try to convince Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons aspirations.
But Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says they won't agree to a gradual phasing out of sanctions.
"We will not sign any deal unless all sanctions are lifted on the same day," Reuters quoted Rouhani in a televised speech aired Thursday. "We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the nuclear talks."
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters the U.S. does not intend to comply with that demand.
"You can't start talking about relieving sanctions until we've reached agreements about how we're going to shut down every pathway they have to a nuclear weapon," Earnest said.
The framework agreement, however, does allow Iran to continue enriching uranium, moving it steadily toward nuclear weapons capability. Coupled with missile production, threats to Israel and state sponsorship of terrorism, producing weapons-grade uranium may be much closer than world powers care to admit.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Obama Accuses Israel of Lying About Iran Deal

Obama Accuses Israel of Lying About Iran Deal

Thursday, February 19, 2015 |  Ryan Jones  ISRAEL TODAY
The Obama Administration on Wednesday suggested that the Israeli government was being less than honest regarding the details of negotiations between the US and Iran regarding the latter’s defiant nuclear program.
But a senior and respected Israeli politician said the White House is risking Israel’s future for the sake of its own selfish interests, and so Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must go forward with a controversial appearance before the US Congress next month.
“There’s no question that some of the things that the Israelis have said in characterizing our negotiating position have not been accurate,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who insisted on the importance of keeping the details of talks with Iran private.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki conveyed a similar assessment: “I think it is safe to say not everything you are hearing from the Israeli government is an accurate reflection of the details of the talks.”
Israeli leaders say the deal America is negotiating would leave the Iranian nuclear program largely intact, trusting to the word of the mullahs to not develop a nuclear weapon. Of course, if the Islamic Republic clandestinely continued on that path and ultimately tested an atomic bomb, it would be at that point too late to do anything about it.
Due to the increased and vocal Israeli opposition to the impending deal, officials in Jerusalem last week said they had largely been shut out on the issue by the Obama Administration.
Israel’s Channel 2 News reported that Jerusalem was no longer receiving full and regular briefings from Washington regarding the Iran nuclear talks. One official told The New York Times that while certain briefings are still maintained, “they are empty.”
The White House staunchly denied the report, but European officials who spoke to the Times said there was some truth to the allegation.
“European officials say that the Israeli reports, while overblown, are not entirely based on fiction,” reported America’s leading newspaper. “One recalled a recent call from Wendy Sherman, the No. 3 State Department official and lead American negotiator with Iran, saying she had cautioned against telling the Israelis too much because the details could be twisted to undermine a deal.”
But senior Likud candidate Benny Begin, son of legendary former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, said Israel is not twisting anything, and that the agreement Obama is prepared to sign with Iran is a real threat to the Jewish state.
“We are not just talking about a bad agreement, we are talking about an agreement that poses an great danger to the security of Israel,” Begin told Army Radio, explaining that with “Iran’s leadership calling for the arming of the West Bank, in a military sense, Israel now shares a border with Iran.”
Begin argued that despite all the opposition, it was important for Netanyahu to go forward with a March 3 appearance before the US Congress. “Not every American congressman knows the facts or details of this thing from Israel’s perspective,” he noted. “And learning about that could change the minds of some.”
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