The Ascending León operation started on Friday by Israel It is the outcome of a plan that demanded years of organization and infiltration In enemy territory, “Times of Israel” revealed.
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For a long time, The Mossad managed to build a drone base in Iran, located near Tehran. The pieces of those grid drones and their ammunition They were introduced into the country in suitcases, trucks and commercial containers.
The military commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Mohammad Bagheri (D), and Iranian Islamic Commander of the Corps of the Revolutionary Guard (CGRI), General Hossein Salami (I), both killed by Israel. (EFE/EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh).
These drones were assembled and secretly deployed near air defense locations and Iranian missile launchers that Israel I had identified.
He Mossad He also introduced precision weapons systems, in addition to having well -trained commands to execute undercover operations.
About 200 Israel airplanes participated in the first bombing against Iran. (FDI).
Friday night, while the Ascending León operation With the participation of more than 200 aircraft of the Israel Air Force, the drones were activated from Iran with several objectives: one of them was to attack the land-earth missile pitchers.
Thus, the teams in land of Mossad They destroyed missile launchers before they could be used.
The systems displayed by the Mossad They also destroyed numerous aerial defenses of Iran and gave Israeli war planes air and freedom of action on the Islamic Republic, Times of Israel said.
As part of the Mossad operation, the armed drones were aimed at other priority objectives: Military commanders, nuclear scientists and leaders of the body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Elite of Iran. Several of them were killed while they slept “Even in their beds, in their homes”according to a senior Israeli security official who told the American newspaper The Washington post unpublished details of the operation.
People walk in front of a building attacked by Israel in Tehran, the Iranian capital, on June 13, 2025. (Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP).
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At dawn on Saturday, it was possible to see holes in the buildings of departments and other constructions in the center of Tehran, where they died Members of the nearby circle of the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Jamenei.
Israeli journalist Barak Ravid said in the Axios portal that hundreds of agents of the Mossadboth within Iran and at the headquarters, they were involved, including a special unit of Iranian operators who work for the Mossad.
Ravid also said that when it was clear that Israel He was about to attack, the commanders of the Air Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran met in a bunker to coordinate the answer.
But Israel I knew that emergency protocol and the location of the bunker. They destroyed him, killing the general commander and the chiefs of drone forces and air defense.
So, there was no longer an immediate response from Iran.
In the worst scenario, the Israel Defense Forces (FDI) They had prepared for the almost immediate launch of between 300 and 500 ballistic missiles to Israel, said an Israeli intelligence officer to axios.
But the first response was several hours later with about 100 drones that were easily intercepted by Israel.
High value targets were eliminated
Iranians pass by an antiisraeli poster in Tehlaran’s square on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP).
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Andrés Gómez de la Torrespecialist in defense and intelligence issues, he told Commerce that Israel’s intelligence services, especially the MossadHistorically, they have been tremendously intrusive, and that specifically for the issue of Iran have woven an impressive amount of networks, collaborators and informants, both in the Islamic Republic itself and in nearby Arab countries.
“What Mossad has done in Iran is what is called the Physical elimination of high value whitesamong them scientists, who have the ability to design, expand and consolidate the Iranian nuclear program, ”said Gómez de la Torre.
What risks do the Mossad With this type of actions? Gómez de la Torre said that it should be remembered that external espionage does not have a legal parapet, in the sense of a limitation, although there is a principle of international law, which is that of non -intervention or non -intervention in internal affairs of other states.
“But today international law is totally relativized, and that knows very well Israel, which is acting on several fronts for physical elimination of both the proxys and the central element, the octopus head, which is Iran,” he noted.
The analyst also said that what was done by the Mossad In Iran it has certain similarities with the Cobweb operation That Ukraine recently carried out in Russia, for which it infiltrated agents and drones that attacked from the airfield and destroyed several Russian strategic planes.
Gómez de la Torre argued that historically in Mossad he has had great successes, such as the capture of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, the Operation Entebbe in Uganda (a host rescue mission of an Air France plane), and the famous operation of God, through which the Mossad eliminated all those responsible for the massacre of Munich of 1972 Palestine killed 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympic Jegos.
