Screenshot from footage released by the Mossad showing strikes carried out by commandos of the Israeli spy agency on Iranian air defenses in Iran, early July 13, 2025
Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian – Times of Israel June 13, 2025
Israel spent years preparing for the operation against Iran’s nuclear and missile programs that was launched early Friday morning, a security official told The Times of Israel, including building a drone base inside Iran and smuggling precision weapons systems and commandos into the country.
The operation — dubbed “Rising Lion” — saw more than 200 Israeli Air Force aircraft participate in the opening strikes, as fighter jets dropped over 330 munitions on some 100 targets, the IDF said. Israel billed the strike as “preemptive” and “precise,” and said it had no choice but to damage the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic, which vows to destroy the Jewish state.
The effort hinged on tight joint planning between the Israel Defense Forces and the Mossad intelligence agency.
According to the official, Mossad agents set up a drone base on Iranian soil near Tehran. The drones were activated overnight, striking surface-to-surface missile launchers aimed at Israel.
In addition, vehicles carrying weapons systems were smuggled into Iran.
These systems took out Iran’s air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action over Iran.
The third covert effort was Mossad commandos deploying precision missiles near anti-aircraft sites in central Iran.
The operations relied on “groundbreaking thinking, bold planning and surgical operation of advanced technologies, special forces and agents operating in the heart of Iran while evading the eyes of local intelligence,” the official said.
The Mossad later revealed rare footage showing its actions in Iran.
The United States knew about the planned operation for at least a week, according to a different Israeli official. Israel and the US are “continuously involved,” the official said.
The Americans are working to rebuild the regional coalition that confronted the previous Iranian attacks on Israel in April 2024 and October 2024. Even so, in the event of an Iranian missile barrage, Israel expects some missiles to get through, said the official.
Iran on Friday morning launched more than 100 drones at Israel, prompting the Air Force to begin shooting them down before they reached Israel’s borders. At about 10:50 a.m. — around the time that the drones were expected to reach Israel — the military’s Home Front Command said civilians no longer needed to remain close to bomb shelters.
The official also said that Aryeh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, was informed that the strike was going to happen, and that it was not the time to dissolve the government, as seemed likely amid a coalition crisis over drafting ultra-Orthodox men to the military. Opposition leaders, however, were not updated ahead of time.
‘A campaign that is nothing less than existential’
The chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder told soldiers at a command center that Israel is entering “a campaign that is nothing less than existential, against an enemy that seeks to destroy us.”
“You’ve heard this yourselves more than once: they are working to develop nuclear capabilities, rapidly advancing in that development, and building up conventional weaponry in very, very large quantities,” he told troops. “This is what we aim to degrade, to disrupt, and to remove that threat.”
“The Intelligence Directorate has worked extremely hard, both to provide early warning about the nuclear progress and the quantities of missiles, and the directorate is ready for this mission,” he continued.
Binder said the directorate is “at a very high level of alert,” adding that it is entering the campaign against Iran with a “very strong starting position.”
Defense Minister Israel Katz, meanwhile, warned that Israel would “eliminate” its foes.
“The precise targeting of senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian military, and nuclear scientists — all of whom were involved in advancing the plan to destroy Israel — sends a strong and clear message: those who work toward Israel’s destruction will be eliminated,” he said in a statement.
Katz further warned that Iran “will pay an increasingly heavy price the longer it continues its aggressive actions” against Israel.
Katz later said that most of the leadership of the IRGC Air Force was eliminated in a strike today in Iran. The top brass of the IRGC Air Force had convened at an underground command center when the strike was carried out, according to a statement issued by Katz’s office.
The Islamic Republic, which vows to destroy Israel, says its nuclear program is for civilian purposes. However, it enriches uranium up to 60 percent — a level that has no civilian purpose and is close to the 90% threshold needed for a nuclear warhead. Iran has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities.
Times of Israel — kikes doing what kikes always do — LIE 🙂
All jew theatre. Never the stranglehold the kikes have on the MSM and much of the “alternative” media too.
All jew theatre. Never FORGET ( 🙂 ) the stranglehold the kikes have on the MSM and much of the “alternative” media too.
Maybe the US and Israel (perhaps with help from younger Iranians whose families are Shah loyalists) had one run at damaging Iran’s defence and attack capabilities; and while what they did was destructive, if it can’t be maintained it was a one-off not to be repeated and Iran may be back on course. If not, those who are still alive in thirty years or so may discover what it’s like to be a Palestinian under Zionist rule.
More BS. Iran is ruled by Donmeh–they’re cooperating with Israel to advance their ‘end of days’ or ‘revelation of st john’ eschatology. Notice no jets were shot down by Iran–thus supporting the view that its all a choreographed collusion.
“Gen. Shlomi Binder told soldiers at a command center that Israel is entering ‘a campaign that is nothing less than existential, against an enemy that seeks to destroy us.’” … Anyone in their right mind hates your f*cking guts, Shlomi, for all of the wickedness, evil, and destruction that Jewry has brought.
Remember that the ‘clerics’ have been working with the CIA, since the Agency took over most British MI6 ops in the region after WW2. It was the clerics that asked for the hit on Gen Suliemani during Trump’s first puppet administration. The real question is can they keep the Iranian military/intel/press under control and silent about this.
Alex Christoforou says that because the damage to Iran appears to be exaggerated after AI and other fake videos were released, he wonders if because Iran knew an attack was coming they just absorbed the blows, albeit they didn’t expect a decapitation strike on their senior military and scientific personnel. He said what makes him wonder this is Iran was able to respond so quickly and forcefully on the same day.
He showed a tweet from ‘X’ by a woman called Ann Vandersteel: ‘Iran has just hit the US Embassy in Tel Aviv…that means we now have reason to respond’. Someone reminded her ‘The US Embassy moved to Jerusalem’. Didn’t Trump move it there in his first term just to piss off the Palestinians?
“The Islamic Republic, which vows to destroy Israel, says its nuclear program is for civilian purposes. However, it enriches uranium up to 60 percent — a level that has no civilian purpose and is close to the 90% threshold needed for a nuclear warhead. Iran has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities.”
Boy,,, if that isn’t the kettle calling the kettle black, I don’t know is!
Iran swarms with israeli spies (like pakistan + india +London).
they find out where the high militars engineers + scientists living.
this happens if a nation is infected with jews + the government .
jewish spirit is satanical pest !
Look what Israel has done, and there are goons on this site who think Israel has a fan club, including the government of Iran. And the government of Russia. And the government of China.
Israel’s fan club of dickheads is diminishing.
Atheists on this site who still believe it all has to do with some Biblical timetable.
Go figure…
Israel has committed crimes, international war crimes, crimes against God that go all the way and have reached my God in heaven.
special branch in the UK
an elite policing group say there are 1400 israeli criminals in the london area
maany of these are military murderers
is about tike they were all cleared out
and take that natzi twat carl jones with you
How do we know Khameni didn’t give the coordinates of his generals to the USA to be eliminated?