By Haider Abbas
A few days back, after Israel-Iran so called ceasefire on June 25, news came that Iran has captured 700 Mossad operatives working for Israel inside Iran. Israel had killed Iran’s top military brass right on the onset of Israel-Iran war on June 13. Mossad is Israel intelligence agency. Iran has been wrecked due to this internal sabotage which of course has resulted in the killing of its own President Ibrahim Raisi, fingers are being pointed towards Azerbaijan, Hamas chief Ismail Hannieh, Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrullah and numerous nuclear scientists like Mohsin Fakrizade etc. Now Iran is into hot pursuit of the internal moles and on July 2, Iran has been able to apprehend what was ostensibly going to be the biggest inside attack on Iran.
It has been reported by Xinhua 1 on July 2, that over 50 with alleged ties to Israel have been caught and two killed as well in Iran’s South Easter province of Sistan and Baluchistan, as informed by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). What was their agenda? Particularly, when Israel defence minister Katz has gone on record to state that soon Israel army is to prepare to enter Iran to finish-off its nuclear programme and foment a regime change, by killing Iran’s supreme leader Ayatullah Khamenie.
Israel capabilities to torpedo Iran’s internal security may have this time got into a bumpy ride, as an attack, which had the wherewithal to throw whole Iran ‘out of gear’ has been halted. Iran has caught a huge co-ordinated network which was allegedly involved into planting ammunition devices close to Iran’s nuclear sites, cyber devices for electronic warfare, cripple Iran’s power grids, oil refineries, military communications, jam security systems, install GPS trackers so that drones flown from inside Iran, for such attacks, were to be channelized.
Israel had been attacking inside Iran through drones fitted with SIM cards and routers, which had forced Iran to stop the entire internet inside the country. However, Israeli agents, it is reported, were able to scale firewalls and had provided real-time intelligence to Israel on Iran’s military movement, storage sites, zones etc due to the advanced US military equipment recovered from its agents. These sleeper cells were to execute further killing of Iran’s top military commanders/scientists etc. All this quite understandably was lead to a massive uprising against Khamenie’s regime. If this gameplan was to succeed, which has been thwarted, obviously there was to be a bombardment from Israel and US together on Iran. Iran has started to force Afghans out, as more than 60% of them, are engaged into this espionage for Israel. They had fake IDs spoke Persian language and evoked very little suspicion. These 50 caught are the kingpins under whom a whole network was underway. A huge number of drones have also been caught.
The big question is why Iran is now into weaning out this network? After a multitude of its high profile personalities have been killed! The reason is that Iran’s popular opinion is unanimously united that it was never see Khamenie killed, and perhaps, across the whole spectrum, inside Iran, this sentiment has led to this unity. Israel was not to stop there as its President Mahmoud Pezishkian is also on the list, in order to install as Raza Pehalvi, son of the last Iranian king, as the new puppet government in Iran. But, as yet, perhaps, Iran has been able to thwart one of the biggest attacks on it.
In fact, so huge is the Mossad network in Iran that Iran had given all the agents a deadline to confess and seek pardon until this operation was started. But, there is no doubt that despite the neutralization of this network, it may be only the tip of an iceberg, as this stench had got too deep. What are the things to unfold? The Israel-Iran full scale war is all the too soon. US has just provided $510 million sale of bomb guidance kits to Israel. Iran, too has warned that this time it would be the final war against Israel.
Who will survive this latest onslaught is what is yet to unfold. Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to meet US President Donald Trump all very soon. There is a stoic silence from all the Arab states and Turkey as well. All are aligned with Israel and Iran. Had bid their adieu to Palestine long back.
The writer is a former UP State Information Commissioner and writes on international issues.
3 July 2025
Source: countercurrents.org