IRGC Foils Israeli Sabotage at Fordow, Captures Plotters
IRGC Foils Israeli Sabotage at Fordow, Captures Plotters
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured members of a network planning to sabotage Iran's underground Fordow nuclear plant, official IRNA news agency reports.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured members of a network planning to sabotage Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear plant, official IRNA news agency reports.

The plot involved an agent paid by Israel attempting to approach a person working with advanced IR-6 centrifuges at the plant, the Monday report said.

The agent was provided with secure communications and paid in cash and cryptocurrencies to approach the plant employee using a contact at a cover company in Hong Kong as a mediator who was in reality an Israel spy officer.

After approaching the plant employee, all wages are exchanged in cash and digital currency so that no traces remain.

The Israeli operative then contacts the plant employee through the agent and orders a software as he gradually moves to approach him himself.

The plant employee continues to cooperate after knowing about the real identity of the Israeli spy, but that is when all their moves are being monitored by the IRGC’s intelligence arm.

According to IRNA, the IRGC Nuclear Command was able to prevent one of the major sabotages of the country’s nuclear facilities in cooperation with the IRGC’s Counterintelligence Command.

The sabotage attack was set to happen before Nowruz which marks the end of the Iranian year on March 20.

Iran’s nuclear program has been the subject of sabotage for more than a decade. Several Iranian scientists have also been assassinated by Israel.

Meanwhile according to reports, the missile attack by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on the Israeli spy agency’s secret compound in northern Iraq targeted 10 Israeli operatives, killing three of them and leaving seven others wounded, according to a report.

A report in The Cradle, citing a senior Iranian security source, said 12 Fateh missiles launched by the IRGC struck the Mossad base in Erbil at around 1:20 am on Sunday.

“The operation has so far killed three people, two of them senior officers, and estimates show seven wounded, some of whom are probably in critical condition,” the unidentified source stated.

The source said an air ambulance was requested from the German city of Stuttgart shortly after Sunday’s attack, but the ambulance landed in Qatar due to security concerns.

U.S. troops reportedly used a C130 aircraft to transport the dead and wounded to the ambulance.

 

“This operation sends a message to all countries in the region that Iran is sensitive to the Israeli regime’s activities near its borders and does not tolerate it,” the source is quoted as saying.

The strike took place “at a symbolic hour when the resistance commanders were assassinated,” the source noted, referring to the assassination of top anti-terror commanders, Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, on 3 January 2020.

According to the source, the operation was in retaliation to an Israeli attack on an IRGC-operated drone base in the Mahidasht district of Kermanshah in western Iran on February 14.