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Israeli Secret Services Used Fake Phone Call to Lure Iran's Air Force Elite to Their Deaths


(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Israel's Mossad secret service used a fake phone call to trick 20 members of Iran's air force senior staff into gathering at a single location before taking them out in a targeted strike, Israel's Channel 12 reported on Monday. Using falsified communications through Iranian channels, the Mossad triggered what appeared to be an emergency meeting that successfully drew the entire senior leadership of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, including Commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, his deputies, and key technical personnel, into a fortified bunker outside Tehran. The bunker was hit in a precision airstrike. There was no one alive to give the command to strike back.
2025-06-19 00:00:00
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