According to a New York Post report, Israel’s attack on Iran, codenamed Operation “Rising Lion,” was the culmination of months of planning, including smuggling drones into Iran and orchestrating a fake meeting to get top Iranian officials into the kill zone.
The attack is drawing comparisons to Israel’s infamous “pager attack” on Hamas for its meticulous planning and intelligence tactics.
From The New York Post:
Israeli spies smuggled missiles and secretly hid explosive drones deep inside Iran in a series of covert operations leading up to Friday’s deadly onslaught – before tricking military leaders into gathering for a meeting so they could be wiped out.
Intelligence agents with Mossad, Israel’s top spy agency, started infiltrating the heart of Iran several months back in order to pull off the surprise attack aimed at obliterating Iranian nuclear and military facilities, as well as a swath of top military commanders.
The spy agency planted the explosive drones inside Iran ahead of time as they laid the groundwork for the major strikes, according to Israeli security sources.
Agents also managed to smuggle precision weapons into central Iran so Israel could target Tehran’s defenses from within.
The stealth campaign, dubbed Operation “Rising Lion,” was eventually conducted in three separate operations early Friday – with the airstrikes each targeting specific weaponry and defense systems in Iran, one Israeli security source told The Post.
Commando units deployed precision-guided weapons near Iran’s surface-to-air missile defenses and targeted the Iranian systems.
A second operation set up strike systems and mounted technology onto vehicles that were launched at Iranian air defense systems.
The final operation targeted Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers at a base outside of Tehran when the explosive-laden drones were activated.
The unmanned aerial vehicles flew to the base and destroyed the launchers that had “posed a threat to Israeli strategic and civilian targets.”
Former White House Press Secretary and Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany said, “It is ASTOUNDING to consider the depths of Israel’s clandestine operation.”
It is ASTOUNDING to consider the depths of Israel's clandestine operation.
🔹 Israel infiltrated explosive drones into Esfajabad base near Tehran and destroyed launchers.
🔹 Israel conducted pinpoint attacks on top Iranian officials through bedroom windows from more than… https://t.co/wqSmTJzDZM
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) June 13, 2025
Watch footage of the attacks below:
Explosions in Tehran after Israel launches ‘preemptive’ air strikes on Iran https://t.co/6VHyxq4jEs pic.twitter.com/9twIlM9Sv0
— New York Post (@nypost) June 13, 2025
Read the full report over at The New York Post:
How Israel’s Mossad spy network infiltrated the heart of Iran before unprecedented attack wreaked havoc on air defense, missile infrastructure https://t.co/YrKUtrJHr1 pic.twitter.com/FqZeqHLbzr
— New York Post (@nypost) June 13, 2025
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