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Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot rise, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran on June 15, 2025. — Reuters
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Paris: Israel’s unprecedented attack on Iran, which has killed top military leaders and nuclear scientists, says experts say.
Israel said it only targeted hundreds of targets on Friday, and then continued its attacks on Sunday, hitting a defense facility and fuel depot. The fire between the enemies of the Mehrab took place so far between the ongoing talks between Tehran and Washington, in which attempts were made to reach Iran’s nuclear program.
“Israel has been following the nuclear program for 15 years,” Israeli analyst Michael Horwiots told AFP. “The strikes we are watching are the result of the gathering and infiltration of the Islamic Republic’s years of intelligence.”
Israel has previously carried out more limited attacks against Iranian military sites, including in October last year. “It seems that this week’s operation this week was preparing for months after the Iranian air defense was significantly weakened after the operation last year,” said Horwiots.
The United States and other Western countries, along with Israel, have also accused Iran of acquiring nuclear weapons. Tehran has denied this, but they have gradually broken their promises under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which the United States withdraws in the first term of President Donald Trump.
This historic agreement has given rid of Iran’s sanctions in exchange for curbs in its nuclear program. Israel has long been believed to have carried out sabotage within Iran through its Mossad spy agency, but the attacks that began on Friday are still widespread.
The campaign has clearly shown Israel’s ability to seek and evacuate Iranian officials and nuclear scientists. The strikes showed a “effective degree of health and skills,” a European security source said.
Israel says it has killed 20 military and security goals, including the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces and the head of Iran’s revolutionary guards, as well as nine nuclear scientists.
Danny Tatarovs, a Danny Settinichs of the Institute for National Security Studies, based in Tel Aviv, said the ability to take top officials showed “intelligence, but more Israeli operations than Iran”.
He told AFP, “For years, it has been much more connected to the ability to collect information, intelligence, excellent intelligence in Iran, which in fact allows you to know where they live, seniors, nuclear scientists.” The latest target strikes surfaced after the Palestinian militant group Hamas’s political leader killed Haniya at a Guest House in Tehran in July last year.
Haniah went to the city to inaugurate Iranian President Masood Pazeshakian, and was allegedly killed by an explosive device that Israeli workers kept in the guest house weeks ago.
Analysts at that time saw the attack as a major failure of intelligence by Iran. “Yet Iran could not learn, nor was it capable of locking holes in its system,” said Starinovicz.
The news site Acivos reports that Mossad agents inside Iran helped prepare Friday’s strikes, prepared a system before the weapons system near the air defense targets, including hiding them in vehicles, and launching them when the attack started.
An Israeli Intelligence official told Akovos that Mossad had “set up an attack drone with a drone inside Iran that was smuggled long before the operation”. A former Israeli intelligence official told the Atlantic that “the Iranians have developed a pond ready to recruit government opponents”, and that “was involved in efforts to build a drone base inside the Iranian country working for Israel”.
Former French Intelligence, Allen Chit, said he believes Israel “has half a dozen cells to work at any moment” inside Iran. Iran regularly executes people who are accused of spying Israel.
It is unclear what role of Israeli military and diplomatic ally has played a role in the latest strikes. Prior to the attack in early Friday, Trump publicly called on Israel to allow diplomacy time, as the US -Iranian nuclear talks in Oman were the sixth period of the weekend.
The US president said on Sunday that Washington had “nothing to do” with the coalition’s campaign. But Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on Sunday that Tehran has “solid evidence of support for US forces and US bases in the region for attacks.” And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that his country was working with the “clear support of the United States president”.
