# Israel Targeted Iranian Regime Leadership By Tracking Bodyguards' Mobile Phones

The New York Times has reported that Israel successfully targeted high-ranking officials in Iran's regime by tracking their bodyguards' mobile phones. The revelation comes as part of a 12-Day War between the two countries, which began on June 13, 2023.

According to senior Israeli and Iranian officials, Iranian security guards were not only carrying cellphones but even posting from them on social media. This carelessness allowed Israeli military intelligence to hunt down top Iranian nuclear scientists and military commanders.

The article describes how Iran's dictator, Ayatollah Khamenei, personally ordered an increase in the security details accompanying his top officials. Despite a ban on the use of mobile devices imposed by the Supreme Leader himself, some of the bodyguards were using their phones and even posting on social media.

Israel located and eliminated Iranian nuclear weapons experts and top regime operatives during the 12-Day War by tracking and hacking into the mobile phones used by the bodyguards assigned to them. The Israeli Air Force (IDF) wiped out nearly the entire top Iranian military command, killing around 20 highest-ranking generals and commanders – including the head of the IGRC as well as military and air force chiefs.

In subsequent strikes on Iran's nuclear weapons program, Israel took out at least nine senior scientists and technical experts. The NYT reported that this was all made possible by the Iranian security guards' careless use of mobile phones over several years, including posting on social media.

Iranian officials had long suspected that Israel was tracking the movements of senior military commanders and nuclear scientists through their mobile phones. However, it appears that these suspicions were correct, as Israel successfully tracked down and eliminated many high-ranking targets using this information.

Smartphones are now completely off limits for senior military commanders, nuclear scientists, and government officials in Iran. The cellphone ban initially did not extend to the security guards protecting the officials, scientists, and commanders. That changed after Israel's wave of assassinations on the first day of the war. Guards are now supposed to carry only walkie-talkies.

Only team leaders who do not travel with the officials can carry cellphones. However, despite these new rules, someone violated them and carried a phone to the National Security Council meeting, allowing the Israelis to carry out a pinpoint strike.

The Iranian security lapse is surprising, given that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had long prohibited his terrorist militia from using mobile phones. The decision to switch to pagers and walkie-talkies led him directly into a well-laid Mossad trap, but this is another story.

The NYT article also reveals that Israel had been tracking Iranian nuclear weapons experts for more than two years, but refrained from taking them out under President Joe Biden's watch. "Israel had been tracking senior Iranian nuclear scientists since the end of 2022 and had weighed killing them as early as last October, but held off to avoid a clash with the Biden administration, Israeli officials said," the daily observed.

The revelation comes amid reports that the IDF has carried out another successful decapitation strike, this time against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, killing the terrorist regime's 'prime minister' and several other senior operatives.