Earlier this year, Mossad recruited a team of Iranian Nuclear Scientists to carry out a secret operation to blow up the most guarded nuclear facility of Iran.
Disguised as if they were working for international dissident groups, up to ten scientists who were approached by the Mossad, agreed to demolish the underground A1000 centrifuge hall at Natanz.
Some of the explosives they used were dropped into the facility by a drone and the same were secretly collected by the scientists, while others were smuggled in boxes of food on a catering van.
The ensuing devastation wreaked havoc on Iran’s highest levels of government. It destroyed 90% of the centrifuges at the nuclear plant, delaying progress toward a bomb and shutting down the key complex for up to nine months.
The new information is among the astonishing secrets of three interconnected Mossad operations that took place in Iran over an 11-month period of sabotage. The first two, in July 2020 and April 2021, used explosives to target the Natanz complex, while the third, in June this year, was a quadcopter assault on the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company (TESA) in Karaj, 30 miles northwest of Tehran, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
Mossad spies planted explosives in building materials used to build the Natanz centrifuge hall as early as 2019, then detonated them in 2020. Agents smuggled an armed quadcopter weighing the same as a motorcycle into Iran piece by piece and used it to launch missiles at the TESA site in Karaj in June.
A team of 1,000 technicians, analysts, and spies, as well as scores of agents on the ground, planned the three operations over an 18-month period.
The three-part assault on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was carried out by Mossad acting alone, denominated as a ‘blue-and-white operation’ in Israeli intelligence circles, rather than in collaboration with the US, denominated as a ‘blue-white-and-red operation.’
