The Iranian government is working hard to root out the Mossad cells that are conducting drone/ATGM attacks in Iran. Multiple arrests have been made and more are on the way.
Thanks bucko, after last week I was about to lose faith in Iran's counterintelligence agencies' capacities but after reading this it's back to Believing. The turbanboys got this and anyone doubting the coming Total Victory is a defeatist who is probably on the Hasbara payroll anyway.
For the those that can't pick up on sarcasm, it's sarcasm. Feelgood stories, whether real, intentionally de-contextualized or outright manufactured, will continue to get spammed until morale across all social media infowar battlefields improves. The Iranians are so bad at (counter) intelligence game, it's embarrassing. Currently the only counterintelligence tactic the Iranians seem to have is to simply rush to the crime scene whenever the next IRGC bigwig gets whacked or critical infrastructural project gets blown up, and hope for a pants down moment. Ergo if the Mossadniks are still around nab them, and if they aren't just wait for the next whackjob and hope for the best.
It's really bad. And the stories just keep on coming. Mossad literally shipped in the vital components for a drone factory, then assembled the drone factory in one of Tehran's suburbs, then started mass producing drones
in Iran, followed this up by preparing dozens of trucks with special drone compartments, then drove the trucks towards dozens of vital military installations, destroyed those installations simultaneously, and then on top of that had
other Mossad cells simultaneously cap the entire IRGC top brass + nuclear scientist corps through ATGM Spike missile attacks (also smuggled into the Iran) and remotely controlled bombs.
Even worse, three days after this debacle the Israelis simply repeated previous stunt by simultaneously boobytrapping and carbombing the few remaining nuclear scientists, have Mossad cells ATGM striking some more IRGC top dogs, and then setting of another 15+ car bombs throughout Tehran.
It just doesn't stop and Iranian counterintelligence continues to be comically bad. Yesterday the newly appointed Iranian Chief of Staff Ali Shadmani got capped, he had been on his new post for only 3 days. His predecessor, Alam Ali Rashid, was eliminated just 4 days ago
Israel is selling several on the ground drone attacks as air strikes to sell the idea that they can penetrate Iranian airspace with impunity.
I'd like two scoops of extra potent copium in my copetea too please. Just today 100+ airstrikes were recorded in Tehran alone, it's a free for all turkey shoot and aside from ineffectual CRAM the Iranians don't seem to have any functional AD systems left. The Israelis can fly in, shoot their missiles, and return to base unbothered. Impunity is the word indeed.
This seems to not be the case and the Israeli airforce appears to continue carrying only standoff strikes from Syrian and Iraqi airspace.
Weird frame, as if strikes originating from Iraqi airspace don't count. The Iranian AD umbrella was designed to counter any threat and that includes incoming enemy planes flying above and missiles fired from neutral soil. The Iranians fail miserably despite whatever cope-angle you look at it. So far there hasn't been proof of a single Israeli strike getting neutralized or plane being deterred. Iran managed to shoot down 2-3 drones and that's the score so far.
As for the technicalities, strikes are mostly launched from Iraqi territory because the maximum reach of the F35/F16 is ~1250 km. That's pushing it when it comes to attacking Iranian targets, ergo why refueling tankers are working around the clock over Jordanian and Syrian airspace, and why some of the Israeli F35 fighters take off with external fuel tanks strapped to them.
