Intelligence flaws root cause of assassinations in resistance front
By Syed Ali Hassan
Iran Daily’s correspondent
in Pakistan
In recent weeks, Israel, using its own and its allies’ spying resources to the fullest, has systematically assassinated Hezbollah leaders and key commanders in Lebanon. This has demonstrated that Israel’s intelligence, along with the reach of its allies, is firmly rooted even within the resistance forces and Tehran itself. At this point, not only Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen but also the resistance forces like Hezbollah and Hamas need to implement counter-intelligence measures. This is necessary to ensure that Israel and its allies cannot damage the leadership of the resistance through acts of terrorism, rather than engaging in battlefield combat based on intelligence reports. Israel’s regime is greatly aided by the exchange of secret information through embassies located in certain Arab countries, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, and Azerbaijan are countries where many citizens of other Muslim countries travel, and they also serve as business hubs. The presence of Israelis in these countries plays a key role in gathering basic intelligence.
It is worth noting that before the UAE and Israel established diplomatic relations, Israel’s Mossad had significantly less capacity to target and assassinate commanders and key members of Arab resistance organizations than in recent years. Azerbaijan established diplomatic relations with Israel just a year after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, on April 7, 1992.
There is no doubt that the assassination of key figures and commanders of Hezbollah and Hamas is evidence of the resistance’s intelligence weakness. If the Palestinians are to reclaim their stolen land and restore their human rights, Israel’s diplomatic and intelligence influence, which stretches from Iraq to Saudi Arabia and from Egypt to Morocco, must be eliminated. Should we forget the historical fact that in the 1973 war against the Arabs, Israel crippled Egypt’s air force through an organized intelligence network of Jewish women, which ultimately led to Israel’s success in destroying fighter jets in their hangars? The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the architect of Iran’s nuclear program, on November 27, 2020, near Tehran marked the moment when Iran should have begun the urgent destruction of Tel Aviv’s intelligence network. Even now, it is not too late.
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