Israel’s recent actions (at least those attributed to the country) are bringing terror to those who practice terrorism against its citizens.
At the end of July, a red alert went off in Iran. The then political leader of the terrorist group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed with an explosive device that would have been placed about two months earlier in the house where he was staying in Tehran, the Iranian capital. .
The hidden device was detonated remotely when Haniyeh was inside the room where he always stayed in the house, US media sources reported.
The Jewish newspaper The Jewish Chronicle, based in London, found that the device was placed under Haniyeh’s bed by two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, recruited by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, who did not admit responsibility for the attack. .
Hours earlier, a commander of another terrorist group, Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a safe house in Beirut, Lebanon, while he was meeting with a Revolutionary Guard commander. This attack was claimed by Israel.
The precise information about the locations and times of these terrorist leaders made Iran suspicious of Israeli infiltration in its government and also in the groups that Tehran supports.
In September, came the unusual episode of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies that exploded, killing more than 30 people (another attack that Israel did not claim responsibility for), which increased Iranian paranoia.
A report last week by Reuters, citing several Iranian regime sources, pointed out that the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon.
Khamenei dispatched an envoy to ask the terrorist leader to flee to Iran, as intelligence reports indicated that Israel had agents infiltrated within Hezbollah and was planning to kill him. However, Nasrallah decided to remain in Lebanon.
The messenger, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, died alongside Nasrallah during an Israeli attack on Hezbollah HQ in Beirut on September 27. The next day, Khamenei took refuge in “a safe place”.
The fear of Iran’s leadership resulted in a major fine-tooth operation launched in recent days.
Members of the Revolutionary Guard and senior security personnel, especially those who travel abroad frequently and/or have relatives living outside Iran, are being investigated and even arrested, one of the Reuters sources said.
A member of the Revolutionary Guard who was in Lebanon and asked questions about Nasrallah’s whereabouts, including how long the terrorist leader would remain in specific locations, was one of those detained. His family no longer lived in Iran.”[Khamenei] he doesn’t trust anyone anymore,” said one of the sources.
Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, a senior Hezbollah official, was carrying out an investigation into the explosions of the terrorist group’s pagers and walkie-talkies, but was killed in an attack by Israel, which also killed other leaders participating in the investigation in another bombing. Hundreds of suspects had been arrested during the investigation.
In an article published this Monday (7) on the website of the London-based Saudi magazine Al Majalla, Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East Institute at the University of London and researcher at the think tank Chatham House, said that recent signs of infiltration will force Iran and the terrorist groups it supports to rigorously review their internal security, which could compromise their ability to continue attacking Israel.
“Nasrallah’s death will have a ripple effect, limiting the ability of Iran’s proxies to act and coordinate. Israel’s campaign in Lebanon is therefore serving as a deterrent to all groups in Iran’s proxy network, which have transformed from a self-styled ‘axis of resistance’ into an axis of paranoia,” he pointed out.
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