Israel sent Mossad commands to Iran to destroy Iranian weapons systems during Israel’s attack against nuclear and military objectives, an Israeli security source said, while another official said that Israel used a ploy to suggest that the strike was not imminent.
Israeli officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the clandestine nature of operations, described secret and long preparations that were in an attack that sent much higher oil prices for fear of regional escalation.
Reuters He could not independently verify the accounts.
Iranian officials who spoke with Reuters Shortly before the attack had been derogatory about any imminent action and repeatedly said to talk about strikes was only “psychological pressure” to influence the nuclear negotiations of the United States-they will be due on Sunday.
Iran has not given a detailed description of what its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, called “illegal and cowardly attacks”, but has promised a tough answer. Iran’s mission in the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the covert operation of Israel and other subterfuges related to attacks.
Before the strike, Israel gave the impression that his approach was still in American diplomacy towards a nuclear agreement with Iran, informing journalists that his boss of spies would go to Washington before the next negotiations.
On the other hand, Israel said that he sent 200 combat aircraft to carry out a wave of air attacks through Iran before dawn on Friday, hitting the nuclear facilities and missile factories, and kill military commanders and nuclear scientists, in a culmination of their efforts to prevent I will get a nuclear weapon.
Iran says that its nuclear program is purely civil.
The Israeli security source said that the Army and Mossad of Israel had worked for years in the intelligence necessary for strikes, who killed the commander of the body of the Revolutionary Guard of Iran, among others.
The security source said that Mossad commands had deployed covert weapons in Iran, including explosive drones that were launched in a surface to surface missile base near Tehran.
Mossad commands also triggered precision -guided weapons systems in Iranian air missile systems as the Israeli attack started, reducing the threat to Israeli war airplanes.
A black and white granulated video distributed by Mossad showed what he said was the operational force of the organization: two camouflaged figures crouched in what seems like a desert terrain, deploying the precision weapons system aimed at destroying Iran’s air defense systems.
Some of the components of the operation would have taken years to organize, said Sima Shine, former head of the Mossad and now a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies of Israel (INSS).
The decision to attack Iran was taken on Monday, on the same day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, spoke on the phone, when Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Eyal Zamir’s military chief decided that the operation would begin on Friday, a second source said, an Israeli defense official.
His discussion was held after the conversation between Trump and Netanyahu, a third official, near Netanyahu, said.
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The final green light was given by the Netanyahu security cabinet, which was convened on Thursday night.
In the days before strikes, Israel developed a ploy to create the impression that an attack was not imminent, according to a fourth source, also an Israeli official.
False reports that suggest that a crack between Israel and the United States had emerged during the telephone call of Netyahu and Trump on Monday did not refuse, said the fourth source.
A press release on a visit by Katz, Zamir and the head of the Tomer Bar of the Israel Air Force to a base of the aforementioned Air Force Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon, but they will not go.
The fourth fountain said the trick included misleading information given in press reports. As the attack was developed in the early hours of Friday, some Israeli journalists pointed out one of those functions, according to which the Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, and the head of Mossad, David Barnea, would be sent to Washington before the next round of nuclear conversations on Sunday.
Later, Dermer appeared sitting with Netanyahu in the bunker of the Israel defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, in a video distributed by the Prime Minister’s office.
A fifth military source said that Israel had been able to surprise Iran, but since the operation was not over, there could be “difficult days” ahead.
Iran, who shot Balistic missiles to Israel when they exchanged blows last year, has promised a “hard punishment” in response to the attack. Israel said he had intercepted many of the 100 drones thrown into the Israeli territory in retaliation.
