On 23rd May, i.e. last Wednesday, the funeral of Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi and other officials was held in the city of Mashhad. Thousands of people from different places across the country had reached the capital Tehran to bid a final farewell to Raisi. This crowd of Iranians participated in the procession taken out during the funeral. "Death of Israel" raised slogans loudly.
These slogans have once again shed light on the shadow war that has been going on for years between Iran and Israel. In fact, the death of Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi has raised many questions. This accident has happened at a time when tensions between Israel and Iran are at their peak.
In such a situation, fingers of suspicion are being raised on Israel behind the helicopter crash. However, the Israeli official has made it clear that Israel has nothing to do with the death of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi.
Israel is believed to have carried out many assassinations, drone attacks and intelligence operations on Iranian soil in the last few years. However, Israel also considers Iran to be the biggest threat to itself.
The enmity is decades old
The enmity between Iran and Israel is decades old. Iran and Israel are the most bitter enemies of the Middle East. There has been a long history of covert attacks between these two countries from land to sea, air and cyberspace. However, neither of them has ever openly taken responsibility for these attacks. This is the first time that both have come face to face openly.
In this report, let us know in detail when and how Israel attacked after entering Iran?
Why does Israel consider Iran a threat
In fact, for a long time Israel has been accusing Iran of preparing a nuclear bomb and Israel considers Iran’s nuclear program a threat to its existence. This is the reason why in response to Iran’s attack on Israel on April 13, Israel targeted the city of Isfahan, which houses Iran’s nuclear installation. However, Iran claims that Iran did not suffer any damage in that attack.
Earlier also Israel had bombed Iraq’s reactor in 1981 and Syria’s nuclear site in 2007. However, most of Iran’s nuclear sites have been built deep inside the ground, which makes it difficult to reach them.
When did Israel enter Iran and attack?
November 2020: Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered by Western and Israeli intelligence agencies to be the father of Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, was killed in a roadside attack outside Tehran.
Iran had blamed Israel for the assassination. Speaking to an Iranian TV channel after the assassination, Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that Israel had used electronic equipment to carry out the operation and hence no one was present at the scene."
Fakhrizadeh was killed while driving his car by a robotic machine gun mounted on a truck parked on the roadside. The human sniper handling this machine gun reportedly carried out the operation from an undisclosed location 1,500 kilometers away. This operation was the first time an AI gun was used to carry out a murder on foreign soil.
January 2010
Apart from the killing of Fakhrizadeh, Israel is believed to have killed four other Iranian scientists and officials in secret operations. These attacks were carried out by Israel using remote-controlled bombs or human shooters on the ground.
In January 2010, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a professor of physics at Tehran University, was assassinated by a remote-controlled bomb planted in his motorcycle. Ali-Mohammadi was a nuclear scientist. After his assassination, Iranian media claimed that Israel and the United States (US) had killed him.
November 2010
In November 2010, Professor Majid Shahriari of the Faculty of Nuclear Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran was killed in a car explosion. America and Israel were held responsible for this attack too.
January 2012
In January 2012, another nuclear scientist Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a bomb explosion in his car. This time too, Iran blamed Israel and the US for the attack.
May 2022
In May 2022, Colonel Hassan Sayyed Khodaei, an officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was shot dead outside his home in Tehran. Following this, a member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council alleged that Khodaei was murdered "Definitely Israeli work" was.
Cyber attacks and drone attacks
Israel is believed to have been involved in at least eight major cyber attacks on Iran, the most famous of which was the 2010 attack involving the Stuxnet virus. The dangerous computer virus Stuxnet was developed by the US and Israel and was used to attack the uranium enrichment center at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. This was the first publicly known cyber attack on any country. Iran blamed Israel and the US for this attack.
January 2018
In January 2018, Mossad agents allegedly raided a secure facility in Tehran and stole nuclear information. In April of this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel needed 100,000 nuclear weapons. "Secret Files" Evidence has been found that proves Iran lied about never having a nuclear weapons program.
The latest attack between Israel and Iran is the cause of the
On April 1, 2024, the Iranian consulate in Syria was attacked. Many military officials, including Iran’s top commander, were killed in this attack. Iran blamed Israel for this attack and to take revenge, Iran carried out rapid attacks on Israel and this action was named Operation True Promise.
On April 13, Iran carried out more than 300 different types of drone attacks on Israel, which included killer drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. Shortly after this attack, the Israeli army targeted the city of Isfahan, which houses Iran’s nuclear installation.
However, Iran claimed that there was no attack on its land from Israel. Iran said that its air defense system destroyed some objects in the air itself.