The pager attack wasn’t targeted, it was just distributing thousands of exploding pagers/walkie-talkies and then pushing a button that exploded them all.
Killing Iran’s “top people” is mostly bullshit as these top people in things like politics and the sciences are public figures who have publicly available addresses and do things like “go outside” and “buy food from the grocery store”.
Like, the nuclear research programs aren’t secret. Iran isn’t engaged in a super secret Manhattan style project where all their top scientists are kept in underground bunkers for decades with no contact with the outside world, right?
Israel has had a fuckton of time to infiltrate Iranian society and decades to set up things like the local exploding drone shops though. However, how long can those last after an actual war is started?
This is all correct, partially because Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Their nuclear scientists are civilians working on power production. They (until now) had no reason to hide.
However, how long can those last after an actual war is started?
The rot goes deep enough that it will be a significant undertaking that should have been done 20 years ago. Better late than never I suppose but how do you do counterintelligence when your counterintelligence people are deeply infiltrated too? Doesn’t help that there are plenty of willing traitors and Shah supporting diaspora in the recruiting pool.
The pager attack wasn’t targeted, it was just distributing thousands of exploding pagers/walkie-talkies and then pushing a button that exploded them all.
Killing Iran’s “top people” is mostly bullshit as these top people in things like politics and the sciences are public figures who have publicly available addresses and do things like “go outside” and “buy food from the grocery store”.
Like, the nuclear research programs aren’t secret. Iran isn’t engaged in a super secret Manhattan style project where all their top scientists are kept in underground bunkers for decades with no contact with the outside world, right?
Israel has had a fuckton of time to infiltrate Iranian society and decades to set up things like the local exploding drone shops though. However, how long can those last after an actual war is started?
This is all correct, partially because Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Their nuclear scientists are civilians working on power production. They (until now) had no reason to hide.
The rot goes deep enough that it will be a significant undertaking that should have been done 20 years ago. Better late than never I suppose but how do you do counterintelligence when your counterintelligence people are deeply infiltrated too? Doesn’t help that there are plenty of willing traitors and Shah supporting diaspora in the recruiting pool.