{"id":377375,"date":"2021-12-07T04:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/drones-bombs-spies-inside-israels-cunning-plan-to-stop-irans-nukes\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T04:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:24:37","slug":"drones-bombs-spies-inside-israels-cunning-plan-to-stop-irans-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/drones-bombs-spies-inside-israels-cunning-plan-to-stop-irans-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"#Drones, bombs, spies \u2014 inside Israel&#8217;s cunning plan to stop Iran&#8217;s nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Drones, bombs, spies \u2014 inside Israel&#8217;s cunning plan to stop Iran&#8217;s nukes<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Israel has carried out three major operations over the last 18 months against Iran\u2019s nuclear sites. These attacks involved as many as a thousand Mossad personnel and were executed with ruthless precision using high-tech weaponry, including drones and a quadcopter \u2014 and spies within Tehran\u2019s holy of holies, its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>While President Biden\u2019s nuclear negotiators try to snatch catastrophe from the jaws of defeat in Vienna, Israel is taking things more seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Naftali Bennett, the Israeli prime minister, pivoted to a new policy on Tehran: retaliating against aggression from militias backed by Tehran with covert strikes on Iranian soil.<\/p>\n<p>This builds on the extensive capabilities that the Mossad has built up in the Islamic Republic in recent years. In February \u2014 seven months before The New York Times \u201cbroke\u201d the same story \u2014 I exposed in the Jewish Chronicle of London how Israeli spies killed nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using a remote-controlled machine gun. I can now reveal the secrets behind Israel\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le attack on Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562252-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Not only did Israel\u2019s Mossad assassinate top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (car) in an ambush last year, but it infiltrated Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility in two separate strikes and took out a centrifuge factory using a quadcopter.&#10;&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-20395779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562252-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562252-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562252-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562252-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Not only did Israel\u2019s Mossad assassinate top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (car) in an ambush last year, but it infiltrated Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility in two separate strikes and took out a centrifuge factory using a quadcopter.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">SalamPix\/Abaca\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tripartite sabotage effort began on July 2, 2020, with a mysterious explosion in the Iran Center for Advanced Centrifuges (ICAC) facility at Natanz, one of the ultrasecure nuclear sites that are dotted around Iran.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the Iranians were mystified. The building had <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently blown itself up. But how? The answer, as they say, shocked them. When the ayatollah\u2019s apparatchiks were renovating the facility in 2019, Israeli agents had posed as construction merchants and sold them building supplies. Those building supplies were packed with explosives. A year later, they were detonated by Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562249-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=686\" alt=\"Israeli spies were able to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. \" class=\"wp-image-20395783\" width=\"237\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562249-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=470 474w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562249-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=353 355w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562249-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=235 237w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562249-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=118 118w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/31562249-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\"\/><figcaption>Israeli spies were able to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">SalamPix\/Abaca\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although this created substantial damage, the Natanz plant was far from out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. Beneath a protective layer of 40 feet of concrete and iron lay the inner sanctum of the A1000 subterranean hall. Inside were up to 5,000 centrifuges that whirred away day and night, minute by minute taking the Iranian regime closer toward a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase of the plan swung into action. Mossad spies approached up to 10 Iranian scientists who had access to this hall and managed to persuade them to switch sides \u2014 although they led the scientists to believe that they were working for international dissidents, not Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the scientists agreed to blow up the high-security facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir motivations were all different,\u201d a well-placed Israeli source tells me. \u201cMossad found out what they deeply wanted in their lives and offered it to them. There was an inner circle of scientists who knew more about the operation, and an outer circle who helped out but had less \u00adinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There remained the puzzle of \u00adgetting the explosives into the \u00adfortified complex.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Iran-Nuclear-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The Iran Center for Advanced Centrifuges facility at Natanz after it was damaged by an explosion on July 2, 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-20395362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Iran-Nuclear-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Iran-Nuclear-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Iran-Nuclear-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Iran Center for Advanced Centrifuges facility at Natanz after it was damaged by an explosion on July 2, 2020.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">APAtomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was achieved in two ways. First, a drone flew into its airspace and delivered the bombs to an agreed-upon location to be collected by the scientists. Then came the smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say you wanted to get explosives into Natanz,\u201d a source told me, coyly. \u201cHow could you do it? You could, for example, think about how people working there need to eat. They need food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you could put the explosives in the lorry that delivers the food to the canteen, and the scientists could pick it up once it\u2019s inside. Yes, you could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-459.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The attack on the Natanz facility and others was planned by the Israeli government.\" class=\"wp-image-20395369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-459.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-459.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-459.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The attack on the Natanz facility and others was planned by the Israeli government.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by HENGHAMEH FAHIMI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The plan worked. The scientists collected the bombs and installed them. In April, after Iran announced that it had started to use advanced IR-5 and IR-6 centrifuges in the underground hall \u2014 in brazen defiance of its nuclear commitments \u2014 the explosives were triggered.<\/p>\n<p>The blast destroyed the secure power system, causing a blackout. Ninety percent of the centrifuges were destroyed, putting the facility out of action for up to nine months. The scientists instantly vanished. All are alive and well \u00adtoday.<\/p>\n<p>Mossad\u2019s attention then turned to the production of the centrifuges themselves, to disrupt the regime\u2019s attempt to restore the Natanz facility. The crosshairs moved to Karaj, 30 miles northwest of Tehran, where the Iran Centrifuge <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> Company (TESA) is located.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-462-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Israel was able to cause a blackout at the Natanz facility in April 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-20395401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-462-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-462-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-462-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Israel was able to cause a blackout at the Natanz facility in April 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the preceding months, a team of Israeli spies and their Iranian agents had jointly smuggled an armed quadcopter \u2014 weighing the same as a motorcycle, a source confirmed \u2014 into the country, piece by piece. Now it was time to deploy it.<\/p>\n<p>On June 23, the team assembled the kit and took it to a location 10 miles from the TESA factory. The operatives launched it, piloted it to the factory and released the payload, causing a large explosion. Then the drone returned to the launch site, where it was spirited away to be used again.<\/p>\n<p>It is significant that these operations took place while the negotiations were continuing in Vienna. The Mossad operations were carried out without international collaboration. To use Israeli intelligence slang, the attacks were \u201cblue-and-white\u201d rather than \u201cblue-white-and-red,\u201d which refers to American involvement. This is significant, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-458-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Israel's actions become more necessary as the Biden administration's nuclear negotiations in Vienna drag on.\" class=\"wp-image-20395404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-458-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-458-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/iran-israel-458-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Israel\u2019s actions become more necessary as the Biden administration\u2019s nuclear negotiations in Vienna drag on.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EU DELEGATION IN VIENNA\/AFP via<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent weeks, Axios reported, Israel has shared intelligence proving that Iran has been laying the technical groundwork for enriching uranium to 90 percent purity, the level required for a bomb.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden\u2019s team, saturated with naivete and a Back to the Future focus on the Obama years, fruitlessly pursues jaw-jaw in Vienna, the cynical Iranians are preparing for war \u2014 and the Mossad, whose instincts are sharpened by the desire to protect their families from annihilation, is trying to stop them.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast between cloud-cuckoo Washington and post-Holocaust Jerusalem is stark. And in seven months\u2019 time, you might read even this in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Wallis Simons is deputy editor of the Jewish Chronicle. From The Spectator.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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