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Inside Israel’s secret war in Iran: Mossad commandos, hidden drones and the strike that stunned Tehran
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Israel’s overnight strike on Iran was not only one of the most ambitious aerial campaigns in recent history, it was the result of years of covert planning, surveillance and infiltration by Israeli intelligence.
While dozens of fighter jets bombed nuclear and military targets across Iran early Friday morning, the groundwork had long been laid by Mossad agents working in lockstep with the Israeli military.
Code-named «Am Kelavi» (Rising Lion), the preemptive operation was the product of unprecedented coordination between the Israeli air force, the Military Intelligence Directorate, Mossad and the country’s defense industries. For years, they worked «shoulder to shoulder» to gather the intelligence files needed to eliminate Iran’s most sensitive military and nuclear assets.
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A senior Israeli security official told Fox News Digital, «The Mossad worked with a huge number of people—a mass of agents deep inside Iran, operating at the highest level of penetration imaginable. Some of these agents were retrained as commando fighters to carry out mission-critical operations.»
That work culminated in what the official described as a three-layered strike. «We eliminated vast areas of Iran’s surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missile infrastructure, a massive number of senior scientists, and large portions of their air defense systems.»
«We established a drone base inside Iran, and at zero hour, Mossad operatives retrieved them from hiding spots. We placed precision missiles on numerous vehicles and embedded additional missiles throughout the country, hidden inside rocks. We activated this entire array in precise coordination with the Israeli air force.»
Israeli jets launched simultaneous strikes on dozens of sites, including Iran’s primary uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. Located 1,500 kilometers from Israeli territory, Natanz had long been a critical part of Iran’s nuclear program. Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson, described it as an underground compound containing multi-level centrifuge halls and electrical infrastructure.
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«We inflicted significant damage on this site,» Defrin said. «This facility was used by the IRGC to advance Iran’s project for acquiring nuclear weapons.»
Avner Golov, vice president of the Mind Israel think tank, told Fox News Digital, «The biggest success was hitting the Natanz facility and neutralizing Iran’s first wave of retaliation—the automatic response.
Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on Friday, June 13, 2025. Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday with explosions booming across Tehran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
«We took out their opening move—the ballistic missiles that were meant to launch immediately, and the drones that were already on the way. The fact that scientists were eliminated—that’s the true achievement.»
However, far beyond the airstrikes, Israeli sources revealed that a massive intelligence and sabotage campaign was unfolding in parallel inside Iran. A former senior Israeli official told Fox News Digital, «There was activity inside Iran—an insane level of intelligence work.
«They located the entire command center of the Iranian Air Force. All the commanders were together, and they were taken out in real time.»
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People move past a large banner featuring portraits of slain leaders from Iran-aligned armed groups, including Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani, in central Tehran, Iran, on May 1, 2025. (Photo by MOHAMMADALI NAJIB/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the same official, Iran’s military had gathered its top air force brass in one facility as part of a publicized drill meant to project deterrence. Instead, it exposed them. «It was partly luck, but also planned—the ability to see them in real time and strike with precision,» he said. «It’s a reminder of what happened in Lebanon—taking out contaminated leadership with surgical intelligence.»
That operation in Lebanon, often referred to as the «pagers» operation, saw Israel infiltrate and sabotage Hezbollah’s command network using Chinese-made radios embedded with explosives. The current operation, Israeli experts say, was broader, deeper, and more strategically impactful.
«I think this is so much more substantial,» said Nadav Eyal, an Israeli journalist and analyst for «Yediot Ahronot» newspaper. «What was done here was much more than the James Bond kind of type of pagers operation. It’s more about the infrastructure, intelligence needed to read devastating strikes on military installations, and the ingenuity of its intelligence services—electronic surveillance, things that it’s been developing for many years now.»
The Mossad’s infiltration campaign involved the quiet smuggling of sophisticated weaponry into Iran, hidden inside vehicles and embedded near strategic targets. In central Iran, precision-guided weapons were planted near surface-to-air missile batteries and launched on command. Disguised vehicles were also used to destroy Iran’s air defense systems at the moment of the strike. Meanwhile, explosive drones positioned near Tehran were activated to destroy long-range missile launchers at the Esfajabad base.
All of it took place under the watch of Iranian intelligence and succeeded without detection.
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Israeli defense officials now say the mission represents one of the most successful intelligence-military integrations in the country’s history. If the Lebanon pagers stunned the world, the message from this strike is even clearer: nowhere is out of reach.
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For weeks, the U.S. military has quietly amassed what President Donald Trump has described as an «armada» in Iran’s backyard. Mapped out across the Persian Gulf and beyond, the deployment tells its own story — one of calculated pressure backed by credible capability.
The latest signal of escalation is the movement of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford, and its strike group from the Caribbean toward the Middle East.
The buildup coincides with indirect negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s disputed nuclear program. Trump has warned that the regime must fully dismantle its nuclear infrastructure — or face consequences.
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President Donald Trump has demanded that the Iranian regime dismantle its nuclear weapons program. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
At the heart of America’s force projection is another carrier strike group: the USS Abraham Lincoln — a mobile fortress at sea, guarded by destroyers and equipped to unleash precision strikes at a moment’s notice. On deck, F-35 fighters and F/A-18 attack aircraft sit within range of dozens of key Iranian military and nuclear targets.
Meanwhile, in the Eastern Mediterranean, the destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Roosevelt provide additional strike capability and missile defense coverage — and could potentially assist Israel in defending against any Iranian counterattack.
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Farther south, in the Red Sea, the USS Delbert B. Black adds another layer of firepower along one of the world’s most important shipping lanes. The Red Sea links the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal, a corridor that carries a significant share of global trade and energy supplies.
A U.S. destroyer there not only protects commercial traffic but also gives Washington the flexibility to respond quickly to threats moving between the Middle East and Europe.
Even closer to Iran’s coastline, in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the USS McFaul and USS Mitscher are operating in one of the most strategically sensitive waterways on the planet. Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz each day. Their presence signals that the U.S. can both defend that vital choke point and, if necessary, strike Iranian targets from close range.
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Alongside the warships in the region are advanced aircraft such as the F-35 fighter, a jet designed to slip past air defenses and hit targets with precision. (Cpl. Isaac Cantrell/U.S. Marine Corps)
Beyond naval forces, U.S. air power is spread across multiple Middle Eastern bases, giving commanders the ability to strike, defend and sustain operations quickly.
Several types of combat aircraft are operating from regional bases, including F-15s, F-16s and the radar-evading F-35. The A-10 specializes in close-air support missions against armored threats.
Those fighters are backed by a network of support aircraft. KC-135 and KC-46 tankers refuel jets midair, allowing them to fly farther and stay aloft longer. EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft can jam enemy radar and communications. E-3 Sentry aircraft serve as airborne command centers, tracking threats across wide areas. P-8 Poseidon planes patrol and monitor maritime activity.
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Additionally, heavy transports — including C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster aircraft — move troops and equipment, while MQ-9 Reaper drones provide surveillance and can carry precision weapons. The assets give U.S. commanders flexibility to operate across air, sea and land.
Taken together, the air and naval deployments create overlapping strike capability, missile defense coverage and control over major maritime routes. For Iran, it means U.S. forces are not concentrated in a single vulnerable location — they are distributed, layered and positioned to operate from multiple directions at once.
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“Cumbres borrascosas”: por qué Joyce Carol Oates no enseñaría la novela a sus estudiantes
“Los comentarios sobre Wuthering Heights resultan tan tristes. Es evidente que muchos, la mayoría, solo han leído la primera parte y no la segunda; la novela es de una ambición enorme porque dramatiza un arco de experiencia que en realidad abarca décadas”, publicó Joyce Carol Oates —autora estadounidense referente y activa usuaria de X—, reabriendo el debate en torno a la polémica por Cumbres borrascosas tras el estreno de la versión cinematográfica dirigida por Emerald Fennel. La discusión, centrada en el legado de Emily Brontë -autora de la novela- ganó impulso en redes sociales, al reunir un agudo cruce generacional sobre la recepción de los clásicos del siglo XIX.
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Oates identifica una distancia radical entre la experiencia lectora actual y la que requiere una obra como Cumbres borrascosas.Por eso, dijo, le resultaban tristres los comentarios. La autora de Blonde, Mamá y Memorias de una viuda habló de cómo fue, en su momento, el debut de Emily Brontë: “Es un logro para una novelista que publica por primera vez, igual que Jane Eyre de la hermana de Emily, Charlotte Brontë”, compartió Oates en X.
Oates reflexionó acerca de la viabilidad, hoy, de conectar con la literatura del siglo XIX: “Quizá se ha vuelto imposible en el siglo XXI para los lectores asimilar una obra del siglo XIX; como profesora de literatura, creo que no intentaría ‘enseñarla’ hoy salvo a estudiantes universitarios muy interesados en literatura, quienes no tendrían dificultades para comprenderla”, agregó en la misma red social.
Al recordar su experiencia escolar, Joyce Carol Oates comparó su formación con el clima educativo actual: “Resulta desconcertante, al mirar estas publicaciones sobre Cumbres borrascosas, que en nuestros institutos de Williamsville, Nueva York —escuelas públicas reconocidas por su enfoque humanístico—, los profesores realmente enseñaban a las Brontë, Dostoyevski, Thoreau y muchos otros autores cuyos libros probablemente hoy se considerarían demasiado exigentes y se descartarían como ‘basura’”, relató Oates en X.
Añadió que los estudiantes leyeron esos libros y aprendieron mucho, igual que los estadounidenses del siglo XIX, quienes “escribían cartas tan elocuentes entre ellos”, destacó Oates.
En referencia a la nueva película, Oates apuntó en X la posibilidad, nunca realizada, de una lectura renovadora: “Sería emocionante ver una interpretación radicalmente nueva de Cumbres borrascosas en la que Heathcliff sea, o pueda ser, el hijo no reconocido del terrateniente Earnshaw: un heredero de la nobleza británica de piel oscura, marginado”, argumentó la autora.
Contrastó dicha posibilidad con el enfoque de la versión dirigida por Fennel: “Pero la nueva película, a juzgar por las críticas —algunas difundidas en medios de cine y portales de reseñas especializados—, parece ser simplemente un romance apasionado entre personajes blancos, lo cual puede ser bueno para la taquilla, aunque no resulta interesante en otros sentidos”, añadió Oates en la plataforma.
Joyce Carol Oates ya había abordado, en una publicación realizada en X en 2024, el impacto de las redes sociales sobre la imaginación y creatividad, dando contexto al universo de las Brontë: “¿Y si las hermanas Brontë hubieran tenido TikTok? Tan solitarias e incomunicadas en la rectoría junto al cementerio, solo podían contarse historias entre ellas, que plasmaron en libros en miniatura de los cuales nacieron años después Cumbres borrascosas y el héroe romántico Rochester”.
Cuestionó el rol de las plataformas digitales en la vida creativa: “En el corto plazo, las redes sociales fascinan; a largo plazo, secan la imaginación y debilitan el alma”, afirmó Oates en la misma red social.
En mensajes previos, la autora evocó la escritura de Mary Shelley: “Releyendo Frankenstein; o, el moderno Prometeo de Mary Shelley. Solo tenía dieciocho años cuando empezó a escribirlo, diecinueve cuando lo terminó, en una especie de trance de inspiración y concentración. Un logro, como Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë: primeras novelas”.
A modo de ironía sobre la corrección contemporánea, escribió en 2016: “‘Withering Heights’, (Cumbres marchitas) corrección moderna de Wuthering Heights. Menos mal que Emily Brontë no contó con la ayuda del autocorrector”, ironizó Oates en Twitter.
Finalmente, dejó planteada una observación sobre la diferencia entre Brontë y Jane Austen: “Cumbres borrascosas es la versión bad-boy-Byroniana de todas las novelas de Jane Austen, con sus damas y caballeros elegantes”, afirmó Oates, estableciendo un contraste provocador entre dos tradiciones narrativas inglesas: mientras las novelas de Jane Austen suelen centrarse en relaciones atravesadas por normas sociales, ironía y códigos de cortesía dentro de un mundo ordenado, Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë lleva el amor y el conflicto a un terreno mucho más oscuro, pasional y desbordado, encarnado en la figura casi salvaje de Heathcliff; al decir “bad-boy-Byroniana”, Oates alude al arquetipo romántico del héroe atormentado y rebelde, sugiriendo que la novela de Brontë sería como una versión extrema, tormentosa y emocionalmente violenta de las historias de amor socialmente reguladas que asociamos con Austen.
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