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'Killed in their sleep': Inside Operation Narnia, Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear scientists
https://www.jpost.com ^ | JUNE 20, 2025 | ANNA BARSKY, AVRAHAM BLOCH, AVI ASHKENAZI

Posted on 06/20/2025 8:03:20 PM PDT by Enterprise

The targeted IDF strikes on nine nuclear scientists last Friday, named Operation Narnia, saw the scientists all killed simultaneously while sleeping in their homes, Channel 12 reported on Thursday night.

Israel launched Operation "Rising Lion" last Friday, marking a powerful opening strike in its war against Iran. The operation successfully eliminated many senior figures in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and key individuals involved in Iran’s nuclear program.

Operation Narnia, a name that reflects the operation’s improbable nature, like something out of a fantasy tale rather than a real-world event.

Throughout the operation, Israeli intelligence officials categorized Iran’s nuclear scientists into four levels for elimination, ranking them from highest to lowest priority. The scientists with the most military expertise and the greatest difficulty in replacing them were ranked highest. Israel then compiled a hit list, ready for execution at command, with the most dangerous scientists at the top.

The successful strike, which also targeted nuclear scientists, was made possible by the Intelligence Directorate’s precise intelligence. The killed scientists and experts were pivotal figures in Iran’s nuclear program, with decades of accumulated experience in nuclear weapons development. Many were direct successors of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, often regarded as the father of Iran’s nuclear program.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Iran; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 202506; boom; fakhrizadeh; iran; iranianwmds; iranwmd; mohsenfakhrizadeh; nuclearprogram
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Sleep with one eye open, clutching your pillow tight.
1 posted on 06/20/2025 8:03:20 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: smokingfrog

Sleep with one eye open


2 posted on 06/20/2025 8:07:15 PM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: null and void

And the last one?


3 posted on 06/20/2025 8:08:15 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Enterprise

...off to never-never land...


4 posted on 06/20/2025 8:08:52 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

See smokingfrog’s tagline...


5 posted on 06/20/2025 8:11:48 PM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: Enterprise
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
   Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—
Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of dew.


6 posted on 06/20/2025 8:15:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Enterprise

If they have such incredible precision, why are they leveling Gaza to dust?

It seems like these are 2 different missions.

One is an ethnic cleansing and the other is a regime change.


7 posted on 06/20/2025 8:19:37 PM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: nitzy

Hamas likes human shields, and puts weapons, tunnels and other such in residential areas, schools, and hospitals.


8 posted on 06/20/2025 8:35:50 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Enterprise

Stop besmirching the word Narnia with bloody warfare. Is it Israeli propaganda to use this name? If so, I’m doubly against it.


9 posted on 06/20/2025 8:39:52 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

Agreed. It should’ve been named Operation Happy Fun Ball


10 posted on 06/20/2025 8:52:07 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: Ge0ffrey

I didn’t smirch anyone.


11 posted on 06/20/2025 8:52:18 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: JZelle; Ge0ffrey; Enterprise

The last time I read the series, Narnia had a number of violent battles.


12 posted on 06/20/2025 8:56:42 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: nitzy

The Gaza operation is not “ethnic cleansing”. It’s targeting the hamas facilities, munitions, & supplies built UNDER the civilian infrastructure, along with destroying the hamas fighting from the above-surface buildings. How would you accomplish this?

When hamas surrenders and returns the hostages, it will stop.


13 posted on 06/20/2025 9:08:31 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting here you're aiming!))
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To: nitzy

“One is an ethnic cleansing and the other is a regime change.”

Nutsy Nazi nitzy is back. Your Jew hatred never fails you.


14 posted on 06/20/2025 9:08:57 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: magooey

Exactly.


15 posted on 06/20/2025 9:36:18 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Enterprise

Those Israelis are sure getting good at murder and assassination.


16 posted on 06/20/2025 10:09:50 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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"Those Israelis are sure getting good at murder and assassination."

The Nazis taught them what the price was for being patient with people who want to kill them all.

17 posted on 06/20/2025 10:19:54 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: castlebrew

Bump


18 posted on 06/20/2025 10:20:51 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: nitzy

Frau Riefenstahl? That you?


19 posted on 06/20/2025 10:57:17 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: castlebrew

Just so everybody is clear, I would fully support ethnically cleansing Gaza. Hamas represents the will of the people there. This is shown by the fact that they happily joined in on the mass war crimes against civilians being committed by Hamas and were celebrating its acts. Well OK then. Drive them into the sea. Scatter them across the Arab world. I don’t care how much anybody whines about it. Too bad. They made their choice. They should suffer the consequences.


20 posted on 06/21/2025 12:25:19 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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