Israel's Security Intelligence Campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran (2020-2022)
Document Type : Original Article
Author
Lecturer at University of Guilan
Abstract
The political-security environment of the West Asian region is changing day by day, regional powers are competing with each other in search of more power and influence in the region. In the meantime, the increasing nuclear and military capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have forced Israel to put intelligence, security, and diplomatic measures on its agenda to reduce Iran's influence in the region. In the first step, Israel's intelligence agencies are seeking to gather the necessary information about Iran's nuclear and military program, and by gradually monitoring Iran's nuclear and military activities, they will inflict irreparable damage on the nuclear and military sites and kill people involved in them. According to the above conditions, the question of the current research is as follows: What intelligence strategies does Israel use to deal with the growing influence of Iran in the region? The findings suggest that Israel through a variety of covert measures such as employing skilled spies in Iran's political system and nuclear, missile and drone programs, selling damaged industrial materials and equipment to Iran, sabotaging Iran's nuclear facilities in various ways, cyber-attacks as well as the assassination of Iran's scientists working in nuclear, missile and drone programs.
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