Israeli forces reportedly set up a fake phone call to top Iranian military leaders June 13 to gather them all in one bunker before proceeding to bomb the location, delivering a massive blow to the Iranian regime in one fell swoop, Israeli sources confirmed to The Jewish Chronicle on Tuesday.
Mossad, Israeli’s intelligence agency, staged a bogus phone call to 20 senior staff members of the Iranian air force, instructing them to convene at a specific bunker for an emergency meeting in Tehran, the Chronicle reported. Just as they met, the Israeli Air Force managed to take out most of the Iranian air force leadership with a precision strike on the bunker, crippling Iran’s capacity to retaliate at a crucial moment.
“We carried out specific activities to help us learn more about them, and then used that information to influence their behavior,” an unnamed Israeli official told Fox News. “We knew this would lead them to meet, but more importantly, we knew how to keep them there.”
With the deaths of the Iranian personnel gathered in the bunker under false pretenses, no one was left in the Iranian chain of command to quickly give the order to launch 1,000 ballistic missiles on June 13 as Iran had previously threatened as retaliation against Israel, according to the JC.
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