Israel fails in sabotaging Iranian defense industry
Iran has thwarted an Israel plot to sabotage Iran's defense industry, including its missile systems; the biggest military sabotage attempt against Iran in the past 100 years.
The shadow war between Israel and Iran reads like the scenario of a Hollywood movie, but with serious real world repercussions,
The statement by the Iranian Intelligence Agency reveals the scope of the operation: “The Intelligence Unit of the Defense Ministry thwarted one of the largest sabotage plots targeting Iran's missile, aviation and aerospace military industry”.
This attempted sabotage was carried out under the guidance of the Zionist intelligence services and their agents.
A network of agents sought to introduce defective parts into the production of advanced missiles, specifically, defective connectors from abroad.
The defective parts were discovered by the Defense Ministry.
The plan was to equip these connectors with explosive circuits.
If that had succeeded, the connectors could have been programmed to explode remotely at any time.
Please describe the person you referred to that disclosed what happened?
Iranian TV Host
He was a non military person (civilian). He was an Iranian who worked for one of the companies. He became suspicious of the people (foreign nationals) who were selling him these parts.
Why would these people become so sensitive about him purchasing these parts? They were researching the local market and gathering information on the ones selling these parts inside Iran.
He then came and spoke to the defense department Protection and Information section.
Our personnel did have some relative [sic] information on this case. They then converged [collated] this information, and with his help, the rest of the network was identified, but in such a way that Mossad would not detect this.
Reza Talaei-nik, Deputy Defense Minister of Iran
Under the facile pretext of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, Mossad has been carrying out a campaign of sabotage and cyber attacks on Iran's civilian nuclear program for quite some time.
One of the most well known cyber attacks utilized the notoriously malicious Stuxnet worm.
In April 2011 an Iranian government official, Ghollamreza Jalali, announced that an investigation had concluded that both the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet attack.
Mossad has also methodically assassinated and murdered Iranian nuclear scientists using methods ranging from magnetic mines attached to the side of their cars, to the use of poison, and allegedly the use of a remote controlled robotic assassin.
Israel has also targeted Iran's nuclear facilities.
The targeting of Iran's defense industry, especially its drone and missile programs does make sense from the Israeli point of view since Iran has made extraordinary advancements in these two fields and military hardware in general.
But all of these destructive actions, none of which Israel has claimed responsibility for, have failed to stop Iranian advancements.
From Israel's perspective, it makes strategic sense, though only as a temporary fix.
Iran may have thwarted these acts of sabotage, but for how long can Tehran show patience when it comes to Israeli belligerence?
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