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Killing the ‘brain trust’: How Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear scientists

Israel's covert operation killed 11 top nuclear scientists and destroyed over half of Iran's missile launchers, delaying its nuclear program by years, officials said.

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Preparations for war were almost complete. Scores of trained agents working for Israel were on the ground in Iran, armed with sophisticated new weapons....

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A Washington Post and PBS Frontline investigation reveals behind the scenes of the operation, Israel's targeted elimination campaign against Iranian nuclear programme scientists.

Six months have passed since Israel's 12-Day War with Iran - and new details about what happened behind the scenes, and the preparations for the attack - are only now being revealed for the first time. A new investigation published by the Washington Post, in collaboration with the PBS program Frontline, revealed, among other things, that more than 100 Iranian agents were recruited by Israel, through the Mossad, to assist in the attack. They were…

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The Washington Post broke the news in on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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