The Guys with the Phones

In a shocking display of sophistication and cunning, Israel's intelligence agency launched a devastating attack on Iran's Supreme National Security Council in an underground bunker 100 feet below a mountain slope in western Tehran. The surprise assault, which was carried out over the course of several days, had far-reaching consequences for Iran's military, government, and nuclear programs.

The leaders who gathered at the emergency meeting, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, heads of the judiciary and intelligence ministry, and senior military commanders, arrived at the site in separate cars, taking great care to avoid using mobile phones. However, their precautions were for naught. Israeli jets dropped six bombs on top of the bunker soon after the meeting began, targeting the two entrance and exit doors.

Remarkably, despite the ferocity of the attack, not a single person in the bunker was killed. However, when the leaders later emerged from the facility, they were met with scenes of devastation and death. The bodies of several guards lay strewn about the entrance and exit points, victims of the devastating blasts.

The attack sent Iran's intelligence apparatus into disarray, leaving officials scrambling to comprehend how the Israelis had managed to infiltrate their security measures. The solution, it turned out, was far more brazen than anyone could have imagined. According to reports, Israeli intelligence had hacked the phones of bodyguards who had accompanied the Iranian leaders to the site and waited outside.

This was not an isolated incident. Over the past two years, Israel has been at the forefront of a revolution in leadership decapitation, a tactic once regarded as impossible to execute in a systematic manner. The implications are far-reaching and have been felt across the Middle East. Have we seen the last of this tactic? Only time will tell.