In the past 10-15 years or so, Iran’s adversaries have:
•Lifted a top secret warehouse full of nuclear secrets out of Tehran
•Recruited Hezbollah’s top external ops guy as a source
•Located & blew up Imad Mughnieyh
•Located & blew up Qassem Soleimani
•Lifted a top secret warehouse full of nuclear secrets out of Tehran
•Recruited Hezbollah’s top external ops guy as a source
•Located & blew up Imad Mughnieyh
•Located & blew up Qassem Soleimani
•Planted explosives in a range of sensitive nuclear and commercial sites around Iran
•Planted some of the world’s most advanced malware in the heart of their nuclear program
And now it looks like they’ve lost (another) top nuclear scientist to an assassination
•Planted some of the world’s most advanced malware in the heart of their nuclear program
And now it looks like they’ve lost (another) top nuclear scientist to an assassination
If I’m the IRGC, I’m not really feeling great right now about the broad freedom of action and capability my enemies enjoy.
*forgot to add: Iranians also also lost a top al-Qaeda official they were protecting when he was gunned down in front of his house in broad daylight in Tehran
**Also forgot, someone dumped a couple years worth of MOIS cable traffic showing sensitive Iranian ops in Iraq https://theintercept.com/2019/11/18/iran-cables/