Iran: A House of Trojans!

The Israel attack on Iran is a developing story. On June 13, at around 4 am  Friday, Israel  attacked Iran, on its nuclear facilities and reportedly killed Iran’s top military brass in six cities. The highest ranking officers i.e.   Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the armed forces and the second-highest commander after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Gen. Hossein Salami, commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran’s primary military force and Gen. Gholamali Rashid, deputy commander in chief of the armed forces. Three nuclear scientists Fereydoun Abbasi, the former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, a theoretical physicist and president of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran and Abdul Hamid Minouchehr have also been killed. It is also reported that Ayatullah Khamenie was missed as a target.  

I am reminded of a story. Chinese built the ‘Great Wall of China’ to safeguard against attacks on it. But, attacks never stopped as those from inside would open the gates to enemies! What is important? A wall or the people?  Both.  Iran has paid the highest price as never such an attack from Israel could have taken place unless there was a covert, and now overt, support to Israel! Iran is now a house of Trojans.

What a great feat by Israel! How come Israel achieve its precision with such accurate brilliance in Iran’s six cities? How come Israel could know the exact location where Iran’s most pivotal officers were in sleep ? The credit goes to the great (sic) web of informers which have been masquerading inside Iran’s security establishment. There is a whole list of assassinations, and series of bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities all at sweet-will by Israel, due to the sprawling courtesies of the moles inside Iran. Who informed the location of Iranian general Qasim Suliemani which led to his killing? Nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizade got killed after his exact whereabouts were leaked.

It hadn’t been that late when on 19 May 2024, Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi and its foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had been killed. Iran officially called it an accident. The crash could never have happened unless there was an internal sabotage. What followed next was the murder of Ismail Hannieh, the chief of Hamas, on July 31, 2024, inside the most security prone zone of Tehran, that too, when Masood Pezeshkian had to take-oath of President. It was a personal punch for Pezeshkian. Israel even ridiculed that Hannieh was to be killed at the funeral of Raisi but was chosen to die on a further date.  Hezbollah leader from Lebanon Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s General Abbas Nilforoushan too have all been buried inside the rubble by Israel, if not with the support of such ‘insiders’ from Iran. 

Did we ever listen to any findings of an inquiry commission after such series of high-profile murders? Did we hear any heads roll? Perhaps no. The ominous words of twice elected Iran’s Ex. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose nomination papers were ironically rejected this time too, had a reckoning as he has nailed the bitterest truth. He had told that during his tenure he had formed a secret service unit to investigate Mossad agents inside Iran’s establishment and found out that its chairman was himself on Mossad’s payroll along with 20 others. All had fled to Israel. Mossad is Israel spy agency.

After Raisi’s murder, it took two whole months from Iran to attack Israel. Why? Pezeshkiahan had been the most stumbling block into it. Israel retaliated but could not incur any substantial damage into Iran, as Iran had straddled itself with newly acquired Russian defense system. It is this system, which has failed this time. Israel has bombed vital installations inside Iran, from US military bases in Iraq. Jordan has provided its air-space to Israel too. Perhaps, Israel has launched an electro-magnetic-pulse attack and has been able to jam all the radars etc inside Iran. The next in broad daylight, on June 13, Israel has attacked using 200 fighter bombers in Iran. Iran is just calculating the loss but how come Israel has been able to kill scientists pinpointedly in their houses.

The world media is agog with reports claiming that Mossad commandoes had infiltrated inside Iran, planted secret drones, smuggled missiles and deployed precision-guided weapons near Iran’s surface-to-air missile defenses to target the Iranian defense systems. Israel has released videos as to how Israel covertly set up strike systems and mounted technology onto vehicles that were launched at Iranian air defense systems. All very strikingly similar to ‘Operation Spider Web’ from Ukraine in Russia, in which hundreds of drones were sent into Russia, of course, only out of support from moles there, and the same has happed with Iran. Israel has named the attack as ‘Operation Rising Lion’, which means, that attacks are to continue.

Nearly every nation in the Middle East is against Iran. The 22 Arab nations are US satellites. Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman etc have ever remained on the side of US. These nations have seen the Israel genocide underway in Gaza, Palestine, since October 7, 2023 when Hamas attacked Israel. Perhaps, an average of 100 people a day are getting killed in Gaza. Any geo-strategist can very easily aver that the last visit to US President to Middle-East (May 13-16) was to smoothen-out the wrinkles for the Arab states support in the wake of the ensuing Israel attack on Iran. Iran had been reeling under the most stringent US sanctions for more than 50 years but has stood to it. The game plan in Middle-East is Russia and China supported Iran versus US supported Israel and the Arab states. There is no where Al Aqsa mosque or Palestine genocide ‘any matter of concern’ for Arabs or for the Turks as well.  

Iran had stood as help to Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Bashshar Al Asad in Syria and Ansar-ul-Lah in Yemen-the front against Israel and US. Turkey, remained a mute spectator to the Palestine genocide, but instead helped Al Jolani topple Asad in Syria, and since then, the entire polity has tilted the game in favour of Israel. Al Jolani and Israel are together in attacks on Iranian assets in Syria. Russia, which had helped Asad survive the last decade, also had to leave its military bases. Russia is battling a war against Ukraine, armed to the teeth by NATO and US, since February 2022. However, Iran has claimed to have caught two Mossad agents  from a house in Savojbolagh County in the northern Alborz province. It is very nearby to Iran’s capital Tehran. But, given the ‘sale-out’ and penetration of Mossad in Iran, Israel may be now very close to zero-in its target on Ayatullah Khamenie.

The third-world-war may be is dangerously close.

Haider Abbas is a former UP State Information Commissioner and writes on international issues.