THREAD: Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Neither was 🇮🇱 Israel’s intelligence victory against the 🇮🇷 Islamic Republic.
So how did it happen?
1/ In June 2025, Israel carried out the most extensive and successful decapitation strike in modern history, eliminating Iran’s top military and nuclear leadership in a single operation.
2/ Iran’s commanders were reportedly drawn into a single location and killed via precision strike.
Simultaneously, nuclear scientists and senior officials were targeted at their residences and known hideouts, indicating long-term surveillance and deep penetration.
3/ The operation included the construction of a covert drone base inside Iran, built in secret over months.
Israel had boots on the ground, tracking targets and preparing the battlefield while avoiding Iranian detection.
4/ U.S. strikes on nuclear sites followed, supported by Israeli intelligence.
According to the Pentagon, Iran’s nuclear program has now been delayed by two years or more.
5/ This unprecedented success builds on a long history.
In 2018, Mossad agents exfiltrated Iran’s entire nuclear archive from Tehran, providing evidence of a hidden weapons program and diplomatic bad faith.
6/ The Israeli-Iranian shadow war dates back to the early 1980s:
📍Explosive parcels sent to Iranian agents
📍Hezbollah commanders assassinated
📍Joint CIA-Mossad operations, including the 2008 killing of terror leader Imad Mughniyeh
7/ In recent years, Mossad reportedly interrogated regime operatives inside Iran, conducted drone strikes, and coordinated with Arab states alarmed by Tehran’s ambitions.
What began as counterterrorism has become strategic containment.
8/ Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution reshaped the region, fueling proxy wars from Lebanon to Yemen.
But Israel’s intelligence services have steadily eroded the Islamic Republic’s ability to act with impunity via a combination of technology, human assets, and bold execution.
9/ 🇮🇱's campaign is a reminder that deterrence today is not just about military force BUT intelligence superiority, operational reach, and persistence over decades.
10/ This is not the end of the story, but a major chapter in the long struggle between two irreconcilable visions for the region.
Read the latest from CAMERA's @SeanDurns for @NRO
🔗 nationalreview.com/2025/07/the-mo…
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