After a weekend of dead silence the Mossad is talking to the press, (viz. the WSJ writeup, at this link
here ) and delivering its own version via DEBKA. The latter includes some unusually cheeky trash talk aimed at Moscow and Tehran. Worth a look, if only to see what they want us to believe.
Here's from DEBKA, with the usual caveats:
...an estimated three quadcopters with bomblets (see photo) smashed into
“an advanced weapons plant” in Isfahan, demonstrating the deep and
detailed penetration Israel’s intelligence has achieved for sabotaging
Iran’s developing nuclear and missile programs. These quadcopters have
been used before. In June 2021, they were deployed to hit a centrifuge
factory in Karaj outside Tehran and once again in February 2022 to
attack a drone-manufacturing plant in Kermanshah.
Since the maximum
range of these four-engined armed drones is no more than about 2km, the
Mossad must obviously enlist local teams for arming and wielding them.
The availability of local helpers for Mossad sabotage operations was
hinted at in Jan. 2018 by Yossie Cohen, then director of the spy agency,
when he remarked: “We have eyes, ears and more, if you will, inside
Iran as well.”
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On Monday, the Russian foreign
ministry condemned the Isfahan attack as a provocation, warning that
“this act of terror could have unpredictable consequences,” adding an
unusual statement: “Russia’s intelligence services are analyzing
information about the attack to get a more complete picture of what
happened.”
Moscow has never hitherto used the
term “terror” in relation to Israel’s long offensive against Iranian
military targets. It is taken to mean that the Russians and their
intelligence resources have opened the door to intervening in Israel’s
shadow war against Iran, whenever and wherever it sees fit.
The full DEBKA piece is at this link
here
