{"id":30282,"date":"2026-03-09T05:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30282"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:59:09","slug":"israels-mossad-relies-on-us-cover-and-security-rot-for-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30282","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Mossad relies on US cover and security rot for Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Assassination strikes in Tehran and Beirut reveal a strategic Israeli dependency on CIA intelligence rather than self-touted operational savvy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view inside a courtroom shows espionage devices confiscated from Iranian agents allegedly linked to the Israeli Mossad who were allegedly behind the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2011 [Abedin Taherkenareh\/EPA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>As the Israeli military\u2019s media apparatus crowns about the February 2026 assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader\u00a0Ali Khamenei, and several family members as a purely Israeli intelligence triumph, the operational reality on the ground tells a far more complex story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series of high-profile \u201cdecapitation\u201d strikes that also decimated the leadership of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah in 2025 and 2024, respectively, are increasingly viewed by military analysts not as the long arm of the\u00a0Mossad<\/a>, but as the result of a massive and pervasive United States technological\u00a0umbrella<\/a>\u00a0as well as profound internal decay within Tehran\u2019s security apparatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The narrative of Israeli self-reliance intentionally obscures a structural dependency on Washington. The strike that killed Khamenei and Iran\u2019s top military brass was essentially a joint US-Israeli mission. Experts from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) note the mission relied heavily on a target bank and real-time electronic surveillance provided by the CIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technical footprint is undeniably from the confines of Langley, Virginia, US, home of the CIA, and its global web. US MQ-9 Reaper drones circled over Tehran and Shiraz to facilitate precision targeting, while the heavy lifting of destroying Iran\u2019s hardened missile sites in the south was handled by US Tomahawk missiles and B-52 bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This pattern mirrors the September 2024 assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah<\/a>, where the Israeli Air Force dropped more than 80 US-made 907kg [2,000lb] bunker-buster bombs to reach a command centre 10m [33 feet] underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CIA tracked Khamenei for months, gaining high-fidelity intelligence on his patterns. It was the CIA that confirmed Khamenei would be at the Tehran leadership compound that fateful Saturday morning, prompting a joint US-Israeli decision to adjust the attack\u2019s timing from night to day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Israeli security apparatus, this overwhelming reliance on Washington is spun domestically as a victory. Mamoun Abu Amer, an Istanbul-based expert on Israeli affairs, told Al Jazeera that this is not the effort of Israeli intelligence alone, but a collaboration with international agencies, including the CIA and the United Kingdom\u2019s foreign intelligence arm, MI6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has utilised this to present a personal political victory to his public\u2014proving that he successfully dragged the US president into a direct military confrontation with Iran, a quagmire that previous US administrations and military chiefs strictly avoided,\u201d Abu Amer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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