By the time Israeli aircraft were streaking across the sky toward nuclear and military sites in Iran on Friday, secret commando teams, swarms of armed drones and explosives concealed in ordinary vehicles were emerging from hiding deep inside Iran and making their way toward slumbering targets.
Among the targets were military commanders, nuclear scientists and leaders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps — many of them murdered while they were "still in their beds, in their homes," according to a senior Israeli security official with direct knowledge of the operation who provided previously unpublished details to The Washington Post.
By daybreak, members of the inner circle of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and key figures in the country's nuclear brain trust were dead, in some cases apparent casualties of explosives-packed drones or other devices that blew holes in the sides of apartment high-rises and other structures in central Tehran, according to Israeli and Western security officials, as well as regime statements on known casualties.
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