When Iran and Israel traded blows, it wasn’t just a fight between two regional heavyweights. It became a live demonstration for oil buyers, arms exporters, military planners, and nervous diplomats around the world, including India. But beneath the missile trails, social media declarations, and press briefings during Israel-Iran conflict lay something more useful: a checklist of hard truths. Not just for Iran, but for any country hoping to secure its skies or protect its secrets. Israel eliminated Iran’s military leaders and nuclear scientists with carrom-board precision because it knew their locations, visible through satellite imagery.Lesson 1: Watch your own people, particularly the flatterersThis knowledge came from betrayal from a section of local officials who relayed real-time information to well-entrenched American and Israeli intelligence agencies scattered across Iran. If this reflected the success of field and signal intelligence over phone and internet communications, it equally exposed the failure of Iran’s counter-intelligence. American agencies like the CIA are more successful because they have something to offer other than money. They can offer visas and asylum to those fearing persecution or simply seeking place under the American sun.
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