In Iran, the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has launched a witch hunt against those suspected of spying for the Israeli Mossad. Over the past 24 hours, Khamenei's agents have arbitrarily arrested people they believe have collaborated with the Israelis, "trying" them immediately, and executing them.
The number of people arrested by the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence service on charges of spying for Israel remains unknown, while on Monday, a man who had previously been subjected to torture was executed.
His case adds, according to a report by the Economic Times, to an unknown number of similar cases where all the defendants "confessed" to having collaborated with the Israeli Mossad.
The notorious Israeli secret service's penetration deep inside theocratic Iran for many years, according to what is known, and the impressive attacks it has carried out, have terrified Khamenei's intelligence service.
His agents see Mossad agents everywhere and for the last 24 hours they have been engaged in a witch hunt along the lines of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages.
The executions are not being carried out publicly because of the war, which the mullahs' regime would very much like to do in order to further terrorize the citizens. It also remains unknown whether those executed had connections to Israeli agents, or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and were arrested.
According to the regime, suspects include those who walk around wearing sunglasses, masks, those carrying large bags, and those driving large agricultural trucks or vans, as well as those seen filming military or nuclear installations and industrial areas.
Mossad had been deeply infiltrated in Tehran with echelons of its agents for years. Echelons where each had a specific mission to carry out and which included assassins, drone operators, surveillance teams and recruiters.
The latter were the ones who allegedly managed to attract many Iranian dissidents, who helped them on more than a few occasions and in missions that left the international community speechless, such as the execution of the director of the nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
According to Western officials and analysts familiar with the intelligence services, the final decision to greenlight this operation was made a year before it was carried out.
On such missions of extraordinary difficulty, Fahrizadeh was placed under close surveillance by Mossad and Iranians recruited by the Israelis.
All his movements were carefully scrutinized, and after several months of constant surveillance, Mossad knew his daily agenda, habits, the number of bodyguards he had, and the routes he took to get to work or to his summer home.
The rest was taken care of by Kidon, the Mossad's invisible team, with a stunning attack that wrote another brilliant operational chapter in its history.
The Wall Street Journal, with an extensive journalistic investigation, revealed previously unknown details of the operation carried out by Mossad before the attack on Iran.
American media reports that this was a multi-year mission through which hundreds of drones equipped with explosives were introduced into the Mullahs' state, essentially carrying out a smuggling operation through commercial channels.
At the same time, Mossad placed well-trained agents near air defense and missile launch facilities and took care to neutralize dozens of them when the Israeli attack began.
Thus, the F-35s encountered almost no resistance when targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, while a characteristic of the operation is that 70 fighters operated for two hours deep inside Iranian territory, spreading chaos.