Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Israel was able to track and target senior Iranian political officials, military commanders and nuclear scientists during the 12-day war by hacking the phones of their bodyguards and drivers, The New York Times reported on August 30, citing several Iranian and Israeli officials.
The war broke out on June 13, when Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran’s nuclear program. The fighting ended when a ceasefire was suddenly announced on June 24, just two days after the U.S. joined Israel by attacking three key nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.
According to the report, Iran was aware of Israeli plans to kill top officials and boosted their security. However, in doing so, they unwittingly allowed Israel to track and target the senior officials.
“We know senior officials and commanders did not carry phones, but their interlocutors, security guards and drivers had phones, they did not take precautions seriously and this is how most of them were traced,” Sasan Karimi, a former deputy vice president for strategy in Iran’s current government and now a political analyst and lecturer at Tehran University, told the NYT.
Not only were the guards still carrying phones, they were also using them to post to social media, an Israeli defense official told the newspaper.
“Using so many bodyguards is a weakness that we imposed on them, and we were able to take advantage of that,” the official said.
More than 30 senior Iranian military commanders and around a dozen of the Islamic Republic’s leading nuclear scientists were assassinated during the war.
Israel later revealed that these killings were a part of an operation codenamed “Red Wedding” , the infamous scene in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series and HBO series “Game of Thrones,” in which several main characters were slain in a surprise attack.
Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, was the first target, an Israeli official told the NYT. As Hajizadeh gathered his senior staff together for an emergency war meeting. They were all then eliminated in an Israeli strike.
After the first wave of assassinations, the guards were ordered to carry only walkie-talkies. However, in at least one case, guards violated the orders allowing Israel to again target political leaders, the report says. That strike ultimately missed the intended targets. It was very likely the one in which President Masoud Pezeshkian was lightly wounded.
The 12-day war exposed major security issues in Iran. The Islamic Republic has since arrested many suspected spies. Some were even convicted of working for Israel and executed. Nevertheless, it is unclear yet if deeper reforms were being implemented within the security apparatus.
The Islamic Republic will have to address the root causes of these issues, even if this requires taking drastic measures that may not be popular with those in the higher-ranks of the government or the public.
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this is why iran should use old technology, which cannot be hacked. they could use landlines or old fashioned one way radios for communications and intel. or even smoke signals.
yes, they should go back throwing stones.
would make sense since they are living under the rubble.
use what you got i say. or go beg russia and china for guns. like your nazi communist friends in ukropisstania.
google pays $300 on a regular basis. my latest salary check was $8600 for working 10 hours a week on the internet. my younger sibling has been averaging $19k .he constantly works approximately 24 hours. i’m not sure how simple it was cde once i checked it
out…… https://bring2uphere1.blogspot.com/
mods take note as the troll is back.
huawei makes some nice phones with a proprietary operating system. that’s why they are effectively banned in the usa. the nsa/cia doesn’t have a backdoor into them like it does with apple or android phones.
no worries. and now better stronger commanders are in place, oh dumb israel, every time the bone breaks it grows back stronger. jews will never defeat the truth/islam.
palantir technologies, unit 8200 are part of the expanding international security network that tracks you and all who you know in the world, the ai will be used to provide targeting and detect un approved thoughts. they also have a program called daddys home to exterminate complete familys in gaza when the father returns from aid distribution
if this sounds evil you this is just a surface of it. palantir is a cia project. they have completely staffed trumps white house. like west exec advisors staffed bidens presidency. this treachery is now completed and expanding beyond imagination. no vote will ever occur to stop this
you talk like a pianist.
hahaha, gives a totally new meaning to:
“honey i’m home!”
bringing home the bacon.
a story to put you to sleep, it was a z-movie, they were given as the commanders of hezbollah by iran in israel, why in gaza, a territory surrounded from all sides, they have trouble finding the main commanders? iran-israel same fight
they are in the holes in the ground.
like rodents.
idf should use gas and blow them up.
or pump the tunnels with oil and light them up.
american bbq style.
yippie ya yay!
you should volunteer in a war zone so you can eat reflect upon the stupidity of your comments the remainder of your existence. big tough guy
are you masterbating to your goat right now, mush mush?
have you gone blind yet?
that’s just an old arab tale to keep you from having fun.
i guess ya have to be straight to understand that.
..nicole… pfff hahaha
disinformation. the awacs picked them up from their mac address and they can read it at more than 40,000 feet altitude and from a great distance. jib jabs were a nano chip and they are the most important surveillance tool ever created. that’s why bibi has a golden injection syringe on his desk.
dayan? thats ugly-arab-talk for a homo goat, right?
no goat is homo only the arab goat humper.
google pays $300 on a regular basis. my latest salary check was $8600 for working 10 hours a week on the internet. my younger sibling has been averaging $19k .he constantly works approximately 24 hours. i’m not sure how simple it was cde once i checked it out…… https://born2up66.blogspot.com/
mods take note.
and now better stronger commanders are in place, oh dumb israel, everything the bone breaks it grows back stronger. you will never defeat the truth/islam.
what?! they literally lost the most ideologically motivated believers, most experienced, most capable, connected and those who had the most shared history, friendships, and camaraderie with each other, with the other commanders, military personnel, officers, government officials & the ayatollah as well. yo can’t replace that! thats over 100 years of knowledge and experience between them including the others killed in syria & by the us
what a beautiful image you paint.
i just came to that…
pew…
reality check:
idf has killed almost all of your leaders.
now, go back to your tunnel and rape a goat or your wife which is the same thing.
far better for the arab to watch the goat rape his wife-daughter-mom
perhaps it is unrealistic to expect decision-makers obsessed with a pre-industrial religionist dogma to appreciate the complexities of technologically sophisticated societies.
no they are just to financially broke, economically struggling, incompetent, distracted, corrupt, kleptocratic, tribalistic but also most importantly they are busy being nationally, institutionally, socially & politically divided and disunited. especially within the government, political sphere, the military brass, branches and wings etc
short:
they are too stupid to live!
yep, that is israel, if they try it again iran next time around will finish them off.
mercedes driving stone age people living under rubble with smart phones.
dude, that’s hilarious!
kikes gonna kike. can’t wait for the purge.
purge your dads come from your arse!
russia has betrayed syria, and therefore russia’s main ally, iran, will soon be destroyed. there is no way back, even if the traitor putler repents.
“failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.” thomas j. watson
iran will learn from it.