How Mossad plotted Israel's attack from deep inside Iran
By the time Israeli aircraft were streaking across the sky toward nuclear and military sites in Iran on Friday, secret commando teams, swarms of armed drones and explosives concealed in ordinary vehicles were emerging from hiding deep inside Iran and making their way toward slumbering targets.
Among the targets were military commanders, nuclear scientists and leaders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps – many of them 'still in their beds, in their homes,' according to a senior Israeli security official with direct knowledge of the operation who provided previously unpublished details to The Washington Post.

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