Israeli Death-Trap: How Israel Turned Iran’s Bodyguards Into Human GPS Beacons
Secret phones betrayed Tehran’s top leaders and turned a mountain bunker into a death trap
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A secret meeting of Iran’s most senior leaders, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and top military commanders, was shattered when Israeli warplanes struck a fortified bunker beneath western Tehran, according to a joint investigation by the New York Times and Yedioth Ahronoth.
The gathering was meant to be untouchable.
Iran’s most senior figures, the president, judges, generals and spymasters, arrived separately, in silence, and left their phones behind.
Three days into Israel’s surprise assault, they descended into the depths of a fortified war room, convinced the mountain would keep them invisible.
Above ground, their bodyguards waited. Unlike the leaders, they clutched smartphones. Some even posted to social media. In that tiny breach, Israel found its opening.
Advanced surveillance locked onto the glowing signals, tracing the guardians to the meeting point.
Jets roared in, unleashing bombs at the bunker’s gates.
The leaders survived, but emerging from the smoke they found their protectors lifeless in the dust.
“The use of so many bodyguards became a weakness,” one Israeli official told the Times. “We forced it on them, and we exploited it.”
Iran’s security community reeled.
Investigators discovered that for months Israeli operatives had been mapping routines, exploiting guard chatter, and turning the very men meant to shield power into beacons that betrayed it. Interviews with Iranian and Israeli officials reveal a chilling reality, no official is truly hidden.
For Tehran, the aftermath is panic. Guards have been multiplied. Phones banned. Arrests carried out. Yet insiders admit the breach runs deeper than a single mistake. Israel’s watchful eyes still hover, waiting.