Inside Op Red Wedding – Israel's fierce wave of assassinations killing 30 Iran generals in first MINUTES of 12-day war

The Irish Sun

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ISRAEL has revealed details of its devastating wave of assassinations in Operation Red Wedding, killing 30 Iranian generals within the first few minutes of the conflict.
On June 13, the IDF
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Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on June 13
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People look over damage to buildings in Nobonyad Square following Israeli airstrikes on the first day of the conflict
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Mossad commandos direct strikes inside Iran
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The 'Red Wedding' scene in Game of Thrones that Israel named its operation after
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The 12-day conflict began when Israel launched
Within its first few minutes, Operation Red Wedding saw some 30
This proved to be effective as, with three of its most senior generals dead,
The staggering operation was given the code-name Red Wedding from popular TV show Game of Thrones, due to the unbelievable way it was carried out, local media reports.
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The scene the operation appeared to be named after to shows a political wedding reception where the groom and his entire
family
are betrayed and killed by the family of the bride.
Most significant among the 30 deaths was the chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' air force, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
He was killed alongside fellow officials of the IRGC Aerospace Force - the unit responsible for Iran's ballistic missiles and drones.
They had been meeting underground with the intention of preparing Iran's retaliation.
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Israel
had launched a deception campaign purely to deceive Iran and cause the IRGC air force officials to congregate in the early hours.
Meanwhile Operation Narnia was unfolding, where nine senior Iranian nuclear scientists who were working on a bomb, according to Israel, were also killed.
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The deadly strikes all hit within minutes of each other.
Hours that followed saw 200 Israeli fighter jets strike numerous Iranian nuclear sites, with air defences also destroyed and ballistic missile launches decimated - thwarting any imminent Iranian response.
The IDF said it used 330 munitions on 100 targets, including uranium enrichment plants and key command centres.
By the end of the 12 day conflict, it said it had "fully met, and even exceeded, all the objectives and goals" that were set out prior to the operation.
It was determined by IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir that June would be the time for the complex operation - and that any delay could mean Israel wouldn't be able to stop Iranian threat later down the line.
Operation Rising Lion was therefore launched as a preemptive campaign with the intention of eliminating "the existential threat to Israel" - Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
Mossad had reportedly spent years plotting the operation, and even built a drone base instead Iran and smuggled precision weapons systems and commandos over.
Bombshell footage appeared to show
It captured troops on the ground as they helped direct drone strikes against Iran's missile defences.
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President Donald Trump, left, stands with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Tehran, Iran
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Destroyed storage building and tunnel entrances at Kermanshah missile facilities, western Iran
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A closer satellite view shows holes and craters on a ridge at Fordow underground complex
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To do so, President Donald Trump used some of the
US military
's most advanced weapons.
Twelve
target
.
Then within 24 hours starting Monday, Iran launched a "very weak" response on a US air base in
Qatar
before a fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel was brokered by the US.
Calls are now ringing louder for the Ayatollah's regime to be taken down - and for a new democractic republic to take shape.
Trump hinted at regime change in a post of Truth Social as he demanded "Make Iran Great Again" - but the
White House
said it was not one of the authority's official goals.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, claimed victory over Israel and America despite his country being hammered in the "12 Day War".
Khamenei is hiding away in a bunker deep below ground despite the ceasefire as he fears being assassinated by secret agents, the
The supreme leader was seen in a video sitting in front of the same brown curtain - presumably still cowardly hiding in his bunker - as he had last week.
On Israel, he ludicrously claimed Iran had almost crushed the country and the government in Tel Aviv was on the verge of collapse.
That's despite the IDF controlling the skies over Tehran, assassinating dozens of top generals and nuclear scientists, and destroying dozens of valuable missile batteries in just 12 days of fighting.
On America, Khamenei claimed to have given the country a "severe slap" to its face and that it had "gained nothing" from the attack on Iran's nuke
plants
.
The Ayatollah said: 'The American regime entered a direct war because it felt that if it did not, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed.
"However, it gained no achievements from this war.
'Here, too, the Islamic Republic emerged victorious, and in return, the Islamic Republic delivered a severe slap to America's face.'
Khamenei also bizarrely claimed his rockets had hit the American's Al Udeid Air Base in
Qatar
, despite his forces giving advanced warning so the rockets could be all shot down.
The supreme leader was last seen a week ago in a video message, but it's two weeks since he appeared to his people in the flesh.
Israel-Iran ceasefire could be a diplomatic triumph for Trump
By Professor Michael Clarke
DONALD Trump's style is diplomacy on steroids.
There's a concept known as Trump Time, which is three times faster than everybody else wants to move at.
Generally, that creates disasters, but given the law of averages, that sort of disruption sometimes works out.
He took a massive military risk at the weekend to
If US action has not effectively
, it has certainly set it back a long way.
When the Iranians responded with an
Would he ignore it or authorise more American airstrikes against
When he
But
Ceasefires usually take some time to negotiate so everybody knows what's supposed to happen and when it's supposed to happen.
A monitoring mechanism is needed to make sure it doesn't fall apart by accident.