Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within (www.propublica.org)
from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 02:17
https://lemmy.ml/post/34330330

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34330326

by Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv for ProPublica
Aug. 7, 2025, 5 a.m. EDT

[fascinating article]

Reporting Highlights

  • Covert Ops: Commandos that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, recruited from Iran and neighboring nations destroyed Iranian air defenses in the first hours of a June attack.
  • Intelligence Gathering: Israeli operatives identified the bedrooms in which Iranian nuclear scientists were sleeping, enabling precise airstrikes.
  • Cyber Deception: Israel sent a fake message that summoned senior Iranian military leaders to a phantom meeting in a bunker that was then bombed by Israeli jets.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

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july@leminal.space on 08 Aug 03:02 next collapse

Evil ass country

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 06:34 next collapse

I’m kind of surprised they didn’t do this earlier. A lot of people in Iran are not too fond of their government, and it’s not like this is a very novel idea. The US and USSR have been trying to do shit like this to each other all through the cold war.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 11:09 collapse

How do you think scientists was killed in iran in 2010? Spies from within is not new

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 08 Aug 11:36 collapse

Taking a page from the Russian playbook. It’s a fairly open secret at this point that Putin basically orchestrated the whole thing, as a means to firm up nationalistic support behind him so he could ascend to power. Remember his resume: KGB, and working directly with the Stasi in the former GDR.