IRAN FINALLY ‘CLEANCES’ ISRAEL AGENTS! IS NETANYAHU DEAD?

A step too late, if not too little, has started to finally take shape in Iran, after the iron-hand Mujhtaba Khamenie, son of late Ayatullah Khamenie, to have taken over as the supreme leader in Iran, inside the third week of US/Israel war on Iran, that Iran’s police chief, Ahmad Reza Radan, has confirmed, as per Reuters on March 16, Iran has arrested 500 people accused of sharing information with enemies.

Half of those cases had involved serious incidents “including people who provided information for hitting targets and individuals who took footage of strike locations and sent them.” He did not give details on when the arrests took place.

Regional Crackdowns

There have been media reports of dozens of arrests in several regions:

Northwestern Iran: 20 people were arrested on accusations by the provincial prosecutor’s office of sending location details on Iran’s military and security assets to Israel.
Northeastern Iran: 10 were arrested, with some accused of collecting information on sensitive locations and economic infrastructure.

“As the Zionist enemy (Israel) and the US are attempting to invade Iran, they simultaneously activate mercenaries and spies to carry out riots as the next step,” told the provincial branch of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence organization.

A Blow to Intelligence Networks

The news by any standard is to be a blow to US and Israel, as CIA and Mossad agents, their intelligence agencies, grand network, out of which both US and Israel has made a great number of targeted killings, is to start cracking.

But, the biggest question is why did not Iran make such a crackdown earlier? When Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrullah, Iran’s President Ibrahm Raisi, Hamas chief Ismail Hannieh, Iran’s nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizade, Iran’s top military general Qasim Suliemani and later its top military brass right on the onset of June 2025 war! Israel wanted to replicate Nasrullah ‘killing’ model on Ayatullah Khamenie, and successfully executed on February 28, as Ayatullah along with 49 top military generals were killed. In a single go!

The Security Breach

There is a whole story, broken by New York Times that China had informed two hours and five minutes before Israel attacked Ayatullah. The message did not percolate to the concerned security officers and systematically 49 top echelons were killed. Can a country afford such a mishap? Why could not Iran pull-up-the-socks to wean out the spies and espionage sprawling network inside? Perhaps, no greater price has been paid for it!

Another story by Financial Times just two days after Ayatullah’s killing, gave elaborate details, that Israel had hacked 12 traffic signals, which led to the Tehran compound, for years, where Ayatullah was to convene his meetings, and had infiltrated mobile phone systems to monitor top officials and their bodyguards, hence, every movement was transmitted as encrypted footage to Israel, which helped Israel build a patterns-of-life around Ayatullah with every possible detail, even their home addresses, work schedules and grocery details!

On the day of killing of Ayatullah, Israeli and US forces disrupted mobile phone services near the compound, preventing bodyguards from receiving potential warnings. Apart from all this, had come a ‘HUMINT’ through CIA which gave the exact location for the strike.

Tightening the Noose

Now finally, Iran has started to tighten the noose around Mossad agents. No doubt after one of the greatest losses already incurred. The announcement that 500 spies have been caught, is a sure pointer that Iran had been zeroing on such sleuths to finally divulge the figure. This will automatically disrupt the inflow of encrypted intelligence to Israel via Iran International Tv, as the modus operandi was to provide filtered information and intelligence inputs to this London based channel, an outlet declared as ‘terrorist organization’ by Iran in 2022.

Iran has also disclosed that around 250 of those nabbed have been quite high in hierarchy of security apparatus in Iran, which included military officials involved into divulging information about top leadership around Ayatullah. This is a clear signal that Iran has now apprehended practically everyone involved in the killing of Ayatullah. No more will US or Israel now enjoy the uninterrupted flow of secret information about Iran’s military installations, missiles factories etc. The contractual killers of Mujhtaba Khamenie will now have to cool-their-heels!

Internal Infiltration

Ironically, Iran’s former President Ahmedinejad in 2024, while in Turkey, informed JPost had made an astounding claim that Mossad had deeply infiltrated Iranian intelligence, as he established a unit, of 20 members, to combat the activities of Mossad in the country but it was found that head of the unit was secretly a Mossad agent!

Iran did not wake up to call to find such fait accompli. It is also intriguing that no sooner the war broke out, Ahmedinejad was declared dead, only to come out late that he is alive. There is still something left to be done, as Iran is yet to make such detainees names go public, put them to trial and accordingly bring them to justice, it is here Iran has to shed with this mystery. As the entire unrest, rioting, arson, killings inside Iran, since December 2025, and even eternally has been the handiwork of such elements.

The Netanyahu Mystery

There is also a deepening mystery that Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed, his brother also killed apart from some high ranking military officials by the barrage of Iran’s missiles. Missiles are hitting Israel on daily basis but Netanyahu is seen, now three videos have been released, having fun at a coffee shop and inside the hills!

The whole world is debating that all videos are AI generated! Or else is he Netanyahu’s body-double which has taken the internet by the storm. Why cannot he meet any journalist to quell his death rumors, whereas, the fact is that Israel defence minister Katz has been present, second time, without Netanyahu, at Israel military council meeting. Something very highly unusual!

The Final Warning

There are reports gaining traction, that Israel and US, in sheer desperation, may nuke Iran as well. David Sachs, top advisor to US President Donald Trump, has warned Iran has a ‘dead man’s switch’ and ‘potentially catastrophic consequences’ may be the result.

Ominous portents are lurking around the times.

Note: The writer is a former UP State Information Commissioner and writes on international issues.

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