Silent Battle with NATO Intelligence in the 12-Day Imposed War

TEHRAN (Defapress) - Ministry of Intelligence Statement on Its Operations During the 12-Day Sacred Defense Against Israel’s Large-Scale Aggression: Major Sensitive Discoveries, Prevention of Assassinations, Arrest of Militant Groups and Spies, Arrest of Sect Members, Countering Baha’ism, Neutralization of Networking Plots, Discovery of Equipment and Weapons, Major Cyber Confrontation, Prevention of Social Provocations, and etc.

The text of the statement is as follows:

1- During the days of the fortieth of the martyrs of the 12-day imposed war, while honoring the memory of those crimson-footed martyrs, including civilian citizens, martyred military commanders and soldiers, nuclear scientists, martyrs of the intelligence community, and the unknown soldiers of Imam Mahdi (aj) in the Ministry of Intelligence, and while praying for their elevated status before God, congratulating and offering condolences to the families of the martyrs, and beseeching the Almighty for their patience and reward, as well as wholeheartedly renewing our allegiance to the wise and visionary leader of the Islamic Revolution and particularly his seven recently announced strategic directives, we hereby inform the great and proud nation of Islamic Iran:

2- The warmongering and aggression of the evil and hostile American-Zionist front in the early hours of Friday, June 13, against beloved Iran was not a limited military operation aimed at striking the country's nuclear and defense capabilities and facilities. Rather, based on a collection of intelligence findings, what occurred during the 12-day imposed war was a war plan involving comprehensive, simultaneous, and full-scale utilization of combined military, security, intelligence, cognitive warfare, disruptive actions, assassinations, sabotage, destabilization, and internal chaos, all with the objective and delusion of "subjugating and forcing the country into surrender, overthrowing the sacred Islamic Republic system, and partitioning greater Iran." This plan was executed under the leadership of America, the criminal Zionist gang, the collaboration of several European countries, and the servitude of counter-revolutionary groups, Takfiri terrorists, and armed thugs.

3- The preparations for this war, in addition to military and armament provisions, included hybrid groundwork such as attempts to conduct negotiations, exploiting the status of certain international organizations to falsely and unjustly accuse the Islamic Republic of violating nuclear commitments, the issuance of an unwarranted and illegal resolution by the IAEA Board of Governors against Iran, intense propaganda bombardment, psychological operations, and cognitive and perceptual warfare by the dominant media currents of the hegemonic system and Western diplomats. It also involved the comprehensive use of the latest technical achievements and smart technologies from CENTCOM, the Pentagon, and major American, Western, and affiliated Zionist corporations in the fields of satellites, cyber operations, signal tracking, telecommunications and internet interception, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, advanced aerial imaging, social networking, and more.

4- The Zionist-American current, oblivious to the realities and truths of the scene and based on the assumptions, calculations, and strategies of materialistic Western analysts and the lies and delusions of the Iranian counter-revolution, entered the arena with the foolish and invalid notion that they could use American regime-change models based on the "dirty war strategy" to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran as a system and an Iranian-Islamic civilizational identity, bring the country and the global Resistance front to their knees, and force them into surrender. However, with the ironclad power of faith and the will of the great Iranian nation and the might of the Islamic Republic’s experienced and courageous armed forces under the steadfast leadership of the Supreme Commander, His Eminence Ayatollah Khamenei, they were grounded and defeated. In this war design, in addition to overt crimes such as targeting a group of military commanders, nuclear scientists, nuclear facilities, and defense systems, and causing damage to residential complexes and the martyrdom of civilians, the enemy sought to activate thugs, terrorists of various colors under different guises, operationalize waiting spies, carry out assassinations and sabotage, and bring into play mercenaries, the dregs of monarchists, hooligans, insurgent hubs, and sleeper cells of MEK to create tension, incite dissatisfaction and guild protests, and turn conditions into a situation of unrest and uncontrolled street riots.

5- In this context, the unknown soldiers of Imam Mahdi (aj) in the Ministry of Intelligence and the country’s intelligence community, before, during, and after the recent 12-day imposed war, engaged in a relentless battle not only against the despicable Zionist regime but also against the "Western intelligence-security NATO." They courageously stood firm against a wide range of security threats and enemy mercenaries, fought valiantly and heroically, imprisoned traitorous elements and foreign agents, or crushed them in armed clashes. In these silent, oppressed, and unknown battles, they presented martyrs and wounded to Islamic Iran and the proud and beloved Iranian nation.

6- However, the "great and silent battle" of the unknown soldiers of Imam Mahdi (aj) against the Zionist front was not limited to the defensive domain. With pride, we inform the noble Iranian nation that the Ministry of Intelligence forces, while maintaining comprehensive security fortifications, achieved an "unprecedented hybrid intelligence offensive" by opening multiple fronts in the occupied territories and against the criminal gang ruling it. Now, seizing the opportunity, we briefly report only a part of the Ministry of Intelligence’s confrontations and offensives (due to certain security constraints and operational field conditions), and God willing, once the considerations are resolved, detailed information will be promptly disclosed:

1) Offensive and Defensive Espionage Cases, Intelligence Exchange, and Counter-Assassination Efforts

1/1. Numerous and diverse offensive and intelligence operations (aggressive espionage) were carried out in various cities of the occupied territories against the interests of the Zionist regime and the criminal gang ruling it. One of the approaches implemented was recruiting intelligence and operational agents from the innermost military and security layers of the regime to carry out assigned missions, receive documented and visual reports of actions, and verify them. It is now declared with certainty that the desperate Zionist regime, although it identified and arrested some Israeli agents, the larger and more sensitive part of the missions continues. On the other hand, the few cases discovered caused such severe concern for the criminal regime that it led to "self-harm" and disgraceful reactions from various regime institutions. One such reaction was the issuance of multiple public warnings by security and law enforcement agencies and the office of the criminal prime minister to deter the regime’s subjects from cooperating and spying for Iran, threatening collaborators with the Ministry of Intelligence with severe punishments. In this regard, when the intelligence cooperation of several military personnel, government employees, and teachers with the Ministry of Intelligence was revealed, the regime’s media reported a "shock to the army and security apparatus of the occupiers," and media propaganda and overt threats were significantly intensified.

1/2. Effective intelligence efforts to enhance access and expand intelligence-gathering platforms from targets within the regime and deliver the resulting products to relevant national and military institutions. In this regard, the utilization of top-secret and sensitive documents obtained from the recent intelligence offensive on the "nuclear information treasury" of the usurping Zionist regime in the weeks before the 12-day war and the precise pinpointing of dozens of key centers and sensitive security, armament, defensive, economic, industrial, refinery, power plant, fuel transmission lines, inhumane research laboratories (nuclear, chemical, microbial, biological), guided frequency command centers, etc., to the armed forces before, during, and after the recent imposed war is noteworthy. (God willing, a documentary on this subject will be broadcast.)

1/3. Activation of covert diplomacy mechanisms regarding battlefield developments during the imposed war through intelligence exchanges with other intelligence services, in addition to sending warning messages to target services via some regional countries, and exchanging data and information with them.

1/4. Identification and arrest of 20 spies, operational and support agents of Mossad, and elements connected to the regime’s intelligence officers in Tehran, Alborz, Qazvin, Arak, Isfahan, Fars, Kerman, Khuzestan, Zanjan, Mazandaran, West Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. In three specific cases, joint operations were conducted with the relevant security forces.

1/5. Identification of several agents linked to the regime’s intelligence officers in the country’s economic, financial, and industrial sectors who were preparing for sabotage operations.

1/6. Identification, discovery, and strikes on operational locations and positions exploited by the enemy’s service during the recent imposed war in several provinces of the country, thwarting their terrorist operations.

1/7. Discovery and neutralization of the regime’s terrorist plots to martyr 23 Iranian officials during the 12-day war and 13 similar conspiracies in the months leading up to the war, which, by God’s grace, prevented the assassination of 35 senior national and military officials.

1/8. Discovery of the regime’s new targets in the Atomic Energy Organization and some military centers of the country, informing relevant officials, and neutralizing the regime’s sabotage operations.

2) Terrorist, Takfiri, and Separatist Groups

During the recent imposed war, Takfiri and terrorist groups were tasked by American-Zionist criminals with carrying out special operations to create insecurity, large-scale terrorist acts, and partition the country. Some actions taken against these groups include:

2/1. Identification and arrest of 3 so-called "emirs" (commanders) of ISIS and 50 Takfiri terrorists inside the country, along with the discovery and seizure of suicide vests and accompanying military weapons.

2/2. The discovery of the hideout of 300 foreign terrorists near the southeastern borders of the country, who were preparing to enter Iranian soil, prevented any movement by them. It is added that the Zionist enemy sought to recruit and organize hundreds of mercenaries from foreigners under the fake name "United Front of Balochistan," whose activities are under surveillance.

2/3. The discovery of operational readiness of about 150 Takfiri elements stationed in Syria who were preparing to move and act against the country, with appropriate preventive measures taken.

2/4. Discovery of the 12-article plan and instructions of one of the groups stationed beyond the western borders of the country, who were preparing to enter and, in their own words, "act in the style of Syria." This led to the identification and arrest of several group agents along the border, as well as the discovery and destruction of their weapon depots prepared for smuggling into the country.

2/5. Obtaining information about the entry of some leaders of armed groups into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, as well as awareness of military exercises by some armed groups in that region, and taking appropriate deterrent measures.

2/6. Strikes on several operational cells of the hypocrite group (Monafeqin, aka "insurgent hubs") that had become active in some provinces during the recent war (including Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Qazvin, Hormozgan, etc.).

2/7. Strikes on several organizational cells of two terrorist groups within cities, intending to carry out operations in the Kurdish-majority provinces of the country.

2/8. Arrest of extremist elements promoting ethnic-based separatism in several regions of the country, who aligned with the Zionist regime, targeted national unity, solidarity, and harmony.

2/9. Obtaining information about the naive plot of terrorist and separatist groups to carry out operations and so-called "territorial occupation" (!) in the northwest and southeast of the country, leading to appropriate preemptive and punitive measures being taken decisively.

2/10. Arrest of several key elements and support teams of a notorious terrorist, separatist, and anti-people group in Sistan and Baluchestan who were preparing for terrorist operations.

3) Neutralization of Regime-Change Plots, Alternative-Building, and Conspiracies of Colonialist Sects

3/1. Full intelligence discovery and awareness of the large-scale American-Zionist plan to create a "puppet government" centered around the hated remnant of the treacherous Pahlavi family, with direct roles played by fanatical Zionist elements of Iranian descent such as Ben Sabti (former spokesperson of the occupying regime), Bijan Rafiee Kian (close to Netanyahu and former member of the American Trade Council), Ari Meghami (representative of the Zionist regime in monarchist assemblies), and the assignment of the "government in exile" to Reza Pahlavi by the aforementioned group (!), alongside advancing Israeli partition plans with monarchists as agents. (Further details will be disclosed later.)

3/2. Full intelligence discovery and neutralization of the monarchists’ Mossad-directed plan to dispatch armed operational teams from across the country to Tehran on the 1st of Tir to carry out terrorist actions the next day (during the bombing of Evin Prison) and nearby military and law enforcement centers, coinciding with a widespread call by Reza Pahlovi and the affiliated Persian-language Zionist mouthpiece for all related elements, families of prisoners, etc., to gather around the prison and initiate street riots from that point. This royal-Zionist scenario was neutralized and contained by identifying involved agents and repeatedly striking the enemy’s operational teams, arresting 122 mercenaries in 23 provinces before they could carry out any terrorist actions in Tehran.

3/3. Discovery and strikes on several organizational teams receiving payment in the form of digital currency (Tether) from royal-Zionist organizational bridgeheads in various provinces tasked with disruptive missions, leading to the arrest of 65 mercenaries in the days leading up to the Zionist regime’s aggression.

3/4. Full intelligence awareness of the "unusual intensification of interactions and communications of the leaders of the Zionist Baha’i sect" with the sect’s headquarters in the occupied territories (Haifa), and at the appropriate time, the arrest of elements who were systematically and organizationally serving the Zionist-Pahlavi project across the country.

3/5. While history bears witness that Iranian Christians have always coexisted harmoniously with their Muslim compatriots, remaining loyal supporters of beloved Iran and offering numerous martyrs in defense of the country, the Zionist regime also targeted this sacred harmony. A branch of Mossad mercenaries under the guise of so-called "Zionist Christian evangelism," linked to the Seattle-based "Church of Salvation" and a Church in the occupied territories, engaged in various anti-security activities during that period. In this regard, through the complete identification and arrest of 53 elements trained abroad, inspection of their organizational locations, and discovery of weapons, the activities of this organization were neutralized.

3/6. Neutralization of a networking plot involving famous artistic, sports, and media personalities by inviting them to Zionist-monarchist assemblies in Turkey and the U.S., along with the arrest of an organizational liaison with dual American citizenship.

3/7. Full intelligence monitoring and awareness of the network of supporters and so-called "citizen-journalist" cells affiliated with the Zionist-terrorist "Iran International" network, discovery of their connections with the child-killing regime, and arrest/summons of 98 affiliated operational agents inside the country.

4) Activities of Anti-Security Elements and Currents in Cyberspace, Cyber and Technical Communications

4/1. Intelligent and continuous monitoring of trends and lines of psychological operations by the American-Zionist front in cyberspace, real-time tracking of websites and social networks to identify and appropriately deal with active pro-regime elements, campaign-building, and calls aimed at creating tension and anti-security gatherings.

4/2. Monitoring and tracking of hidden and unusual communications between domestic users and foreigners, especially with elements and communication channels of the Zionist regime, leading to the identification of dozens of admins of pages and channels linked to espionage and operational networks (so-called "street warfare") in cyberspace, and their arrest.

4/3. Monitoring and neutralizing enemy activities in signal intelligence domains within the technical access and capabilities of this ministry.

4/4. Intelligent monitoring and preventive measures to continuously counter enemy cyber threats and attacks, discovering technical and cyber infiltrations and disruptions.

4/5. Identification and appropriate handling of Mossad agents’ contact processes (using international phone codes) with some target individuals inside the country to create psychological insecurity, confusion, threats, introducing so-called "safe exit routes," and promises of citizenship and residency abroad; all of which failed due to the vigilance of the targeted individuals.

5) Discovery of Weapons and Equipment in Counter-Terrorism

Hidden reports and data indicate that the behavioral patterns of various terrorist, Takfiri, and separatist groups, especially along the western and eastern borders, including extensive preparations, stockpiling of weapons and personnel, and smuggling equipment and arms into the country, pointed to efforts to prepare for "zero hour" and the imposed war period to carry out operations against the country’s security. In this regard, some intelligence and operational efforts include:

5/1. Intelligence monitoring and control over large weapon storage centers by some of these groups outside the country’s borders, ready for transfer and distribution among supporters at "zero hour" by the counter-revolution. During the 12-day imposed war, six major shipments en route to Kurdistan province and the entry lines of weapons and equipment for the groups and the military organizational cell of the terrorist group based in the Kurdistan Region were successfully struck. The outcome of these cross-border operations included the discovery of numerous grenade launchers, rifle grenades, Kalashnikov machine guns, combat grenades, handguns, ammunition, etc.

5/2. Operations against several large warehouses of semi-heavy explosive weapons and ammunition in Sistan and Baluchestan and Kerman, leading to the discovery and seizure of a significant number of machine guns, RPG-7s and their rounds, hand grenades with explosive detonators, handguns, grenade launchers and related ammunition, various machine gun and handgun rounds, etc.

5/3. Identification of two major arms smuggling networks abroad, disrupting their illegal network, and seizure of dozens of military weapon shipments, including American M4s, M16s, Kalashnikovs, handguns, grenade launchers, radios, etc.

6) Social Provocations

6/1. Since social provocations through various hybrid methods were on the enemy’s agenda (before, during, and after the 12-day war), the Ministry of Intelligence, while closely monitoring the enemy’s scenarios, implemented appropriate neutralizing measures in both affirmative (clarifying the issue for target communities) and preventive (deterring provocative actions by aware and unaware enemy agents) dimensions, carrying out thousands of necessary actions nationwide through all provincial intelligence departments.

6/2. Increased monitoring and protective measures, issuing warnings regarding service centers and major production complexes of the country against various plots by services, groups, and hostile elements to fuel disruption and dissatisfaction.

6/3. Continuous intelligence monitoring and appropriate handling of efforts by enemy agents and fifth columnists to exploit artificial shortages of essential and livelihood goods during the imposed war (whether through hoarding and price gouging or rumor-mongering and public anxiety).

Conclusion

The unknown soldiers of Imam Mahdi (aj) bow their foreheads in gratitude to God that, despite the vastness and depth of the Zionist-American conspiracy and sedition, and the gathering of a coalition of foreign mercenaries, official spies, and group and terrorist elements, including various Takfiris, ISIS, MEK, monarchists, deviant sects, and separatists from the east and west of the country, none of their operations against the country’s security could succeed during the 12-day war, thanks to comprehensive intelligence awareness and the sacrifices of the unassuming intelligence-security mujahideen, including 6 martyred and unknown mujahideen. Undoubtedly, this success was the result of divine blessings upon this land and nation, the guidance of the Supreme Leader, His Eminence Ayatollah Khamenei (may his shadow endure), and the monumental role of the vigilant and heroic Iranian people.

Regarding the people’s astonishing role, the dimensions of their resistance against the enemy, enduring war hardships, and preserving national unity have mostly been highlighted so far. However, we witnessed another kind of role-playing that has not been addressed yet: the heartfelt, intelligent, loyal, committed, and guiding companionship of the people with their children and devoted servants in the garrison of the unknown soldiers. The truth is that when the people were asked to assist and report suspicious cases, we witnessed an epic beyond description. We honestly and precisely acknowledge that the primary role in the "sacred security defense against the coalition of criminal aggressors" was played by our people. Before this greatness, we bow in humility and request that their previous attentiveness to suspicious cases continues, as, according to verified information, the malice and mischief of the American-Zionist enemy persist, as evidenced by the recent tragic terrorist operation in Zahedan. Before and after that, the efforts of mercenaries and enemy agents for similar terrorist actions have continued. Therefore, the sacred defense and the offensive-defensive jihad of the unknown mujahideen against the arrogant enemy and its mercenaries will continue with might and vigilance, God willing.