Posted on 10/08/2022 1:05:38 PM PDT by nuconvert
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-august-7-2025
Iran Update, August 8, 2025
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Abdollah Hajji Sadeghi, implicitly expressed support on August 8 for negotiations with the United States.[11] Sadeghi stated that “wise negotiations under the supervision of the Supreme Leader” could support Iran’s fight against Israel. Iran has not softened its stance on domestic uranium enrichment, which was the main sticking point between Iran and the United States in negotiations before the Israel-Iran War. Multiple Iranian officials, such as Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi, have insisted that Iran will continue domestic uranium enrichment despite the war.[12] The United States has maintained that domestic uranium enrichment is a non-starter in negotiations.[13]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-august-8-2025
Reporting Highlights
Covert Ops: Commandos that the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, recruited from Iran and neighboring nations destroyed Iranian air defenses in the first hours of a June attack.
Intelligence Gathering: Israeli operatives identified the bedrooms in which Iranian nuclear scientists were sleeping, enabling precise airstrikes.
Cyber Deception: Israel sent a fake message that summoned senior Iranian military leaders to a phantom meeting in a bunker that was then bombed by Israeli jets.
As they had with the pagers, Israeli spies took advantage of their ability to penetrate their adversary's communications systems. Early in the aerial attack, Israeli cyberwarriors sent a fake message to Iran's top military leaders, luring them to a phantom meeting in an underground bunker that was then demolished in a precision strike. Twenty were killed, including three chiefs of staff.
https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-iran-war-mossad-iranian-recruits
Long article
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