What is the measure of Israel’s intelligence operations in Iran? | News Israel-Iran Conflict

According to the Israeli press, the years of intelligence of the years of intelligence were at the origin of the Israeli targeting of key military posts and leaders in Iran.

The strikes that have withdrawn a large part of the key defensive infrastructure of Iran and the military commanders killed are credited to an Israeli intelligence service which would have infiltrated a large part of the Iranian security apparatus.

In Iran, dozens of people have been arrested and accused of espionage for Mossad, the Israel Intelligence Agency, providing media support for Israel or a disturbing public opinion.

Barely a few days ago, the Iranian government ordered senior officials and its safety teams not to use smartphones connected to the Internet to avoid Israeli hacking of sensitive communications. The Iranian security services, on the other hand, would have asked the public to report any building that they have rented to companies or individuals in the past two years.

The repression of Iran follows what was considered as an unprecedented Israeli intelligence operation which led to its recent strikes on the country, but how extended the infiltration has been in preparation?

What is the size of a role of Israeli intelligence in its initial strikes on Iran?

A.

Shortly after Israel’s strikes on Iran, stories of intelligence operations preceding the “unprecedented” attack flooded the media. In the interviews given by the higher members of the Israel Intelligence Community, details have been given on the way in which human intelligence and AI were used in tandem to stage the attack, which said, said a large part of Iran’s air defenses.

On June 17, just a few days after the strike, the Associated Press published interviews with 10 Israeli and military intelligence managers.

“This attack is the culmination of the Mossad years of work to target the Iranian nuclear program,” said Sima Shine, the former research director of Mossad. The part also detailed how Israeli agents were able to get swept in a series of drones and missile systems in Iran, which were then used to strike many targets determined by an American AI model working on the data provided to it by Israeli agents in Iran, as well as the information obtained from previous strikes.

Are intelligence operations in progress?

They seem to be.

Israel said that the locations of two Higher Officers of the Iran force, Saeed Izadi and Behnam Shahryari, who were killed this weekend, had been determined by his intelligence networks.

Earlier, on June 17, Israel was able to locate and killed one of the most senior military personalities in Iran, Major-General Ali Shademani, and it was only four days after the assassination of his predecessor in a targeted air strike.

“I do not think that people realize how audacity we have,” said Miri Eisin, a specialist in Israeli military intelligence, at the UK observer, noting that a target should completely get rid of all electronic devices that could connect to the Internet to avoid detection. “Most people do not withdraw from the grid,” she said. “You can access anyone.”

“Israel probably has about 30 to 40 cells operating inside Iran,” the defense analyst in Al Jazeera in Luxembourg, “with most of those made up of collaborators, rather than Israeli agents, in Al Jazeera, which also makes Iran weak, he said, citing the assembly instructions found by the equipment seized by the authorities.

“Some of these cells will be responsible for the smuggling of weapons of Israel, others for having carried out attacks and others for the collection of intelligence,” he said.

How long has it been happening?

Israeli intelligence operations in Iran are not new. According to analystsThe operations designed to monitor, infiltrate, sabotage and undermine the Iranian defenses date back to the Iranian revolution of 1979.

Speaking in November 2024, Ali Larijani, senior advisor to the supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, acknowledged the extent of Israeli operations in Iran, telling the news agency Isna that “the problem of infiltration had become very serious in recent years”.

“There have been cases of negligence for years,” added the former parliamentary speaker and nuclear negotiator.

THE Detonation of communication devices Used by the Lebanese group armed with Hezbollah in September 2024 was only possible after infiltration of the group’s supply chain by Israeli information. Likewise, the assassination of his chief, Hassan Nasrallah, was made after details of his location were obtained by Israeli agents. A similar subterfuge was also used in the targeted assassination of the Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran in July 2024, when an explosive device Placed in his residence in previous weeks was exploded.

Over the past two decades, Israel has killed a number of Iranian nuclear scientists, including Mohsen Fakhrizadehwhich was assassinated by a remote -controlled pistol mounted at the back of a van. Israel was also responsible for the release of Stoxnet computer virus in 2010This would have infected 30,000 computers in at least 14 nuclear installations in Iran.

Does Iran also spy on Israel?

Absolutely.

At the end of October, the internal security agency of Israel, Shin Bet, announced the arrest seven Israeli citizens suspected of spying for Iran. One day earlier, the authorities had owned another group of seven from seven to Haifa, alleging that they had helped the Iran’s ministry in wartime.

At the time, Israeli police sources indicated that additional secret networks with links with Iran can be active in the country.

If it is a secret operation, why do we know as much about it?

Because, according to analysts, advertising can also be a powerful tool in the toolbox of an intelligence agency.

Putting on the degree to which the security infrastructure of an opposing country can be infiltrated and sabotaged the morale of this country while scoring points at home.

“It’s psychological warfare,” said Attar. “If I continue to say that I have entered your home and that you continue to deny it, then I present the proof of having done this, what do you look like? You look weak. Israel will continue to boast of the extent of their infiltration in the hope that Iran will deny it, then they will provide additional evidence.”