The 6th Eye: Israel

Editor's note: Well, if you don't want to be targeted for assassination ditch your "smart" phones. The work of Israel's Unit 8200. Doesn't everyone sorely miss the analog world? The Iranians apparently didn't learn anything did they? After Israel detonated explosives inside the smart phones of Hezbollah leaders. Two versions should be manufactured: Smart phones and dumb phones. Smartphones: So smart they've convinced us we need a digital leash. "Zero-day, zero-click" assassinations. Did Palantir have a hand in this? Data analytics and targeting? One could only guess. This news already hit Tehran. All the Islamic cleric leaders are not only ditching their smart phones by now, but their body guards too. Maybe they should ditch Islam? Bring the rest of the world a little fucking peace and quiet for a change.

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Israel Found Iran's Top Commanders After Hacking Phones Of Their Bodyguards

August 30, 2020 | By South Front

Israel was able to track and target senior Iranian political officials, military commanders and nuclear scientists during the 12-day war by hacking the phones of their bodyguards and drivers, The New York Times reported on August 30, citing several Iranian and Israeli officials.

The war broke out on June 13, when Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran's nuclear program. The fighting ended when a ceasefire was suddenly announced on June 24, just two days after the U.S. joined Israel by attacking three key nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.

According to the report, Iran was aware of Israeli plans to kill top officials and boosted their security. However, in doing so, they unwittingly allowed Israel to track and target the senior officials.

"We know senior officials and commanders did not carry phones, but their interlocutors, security guards and drivers had phones, they did not take precautions seriously and this is how most of them were traced," Sasan Karimi, a former deputy vice president for strategy in Iran's current government and now a political analyst and lecturer at Tehran University, told the NYT.

Not only were the guards still carrying phones, they were also using them to post to social media, an Israeli defense official told the newspaper.

"Using so many bodyguards is a weakness that we imposed on them, and we were able to take advantage of that," the official said.

More than 30 senior Iranian military commanders and around a dozen of the Islamic Republic's leading nuclear scientists were assassinated during the war.

Israel later revealed that these killings were a part of an operation codenamed "Red Wedding" , the infamous scene in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series and HBO series "Game of Thrones," in which several main characters were slain in a surprise attack.

Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Aerospace Force, was the first target, an Israeli official told the NYT. As Hajizadeh gathered his senior staff together for an emergency war meeting. They were all then eliminated in an Israeli strike.

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The Turks should check their smart phones too while they're at it:

Türkiye 'completely' cutting trade with Israel

Honestly, they have a name for every war don't they? It's like personalizing war giving it sentimental value. Why not call it "12 days of killing" instead? Or "12 days of assassinations?"

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