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ISRAEL has disclosed details of its intense wave of assassinations during Operation Red Wedding, resulting in the deaths of 30 Iranian generals in the initial minutes of the conflict.

On June 13, the IDF launched a “preemptive” operation not only the aim to decimate Iran’s nuclear program, but to take out its military chiefs.

Smoke rises from an explosion in Tehran, Iran.
Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on June 13Credit: AP
TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 13: People look over damage to buildings in Nobonyad Square following Israeli airstrikes on June 13, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's three top military generals were killed in the attacks that also targeted nuclear and military facilities, according to published reports. Israel described the strikes as preemptive to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the reports said. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
People look over damage to buildings in Nobonyad Square following Israeli airstrikes on the first day of the conflict
Thermal image of a person crouching near another blurred figure.
Mossad commandos direct strikes inside Iran
Game of Thrones Red Wedding - Season 3 Episode 9
The ‘Red Wedding’ scene in Game of Thrones that Israel named its operation after
Illustration of a map of Iran showing locations of strikes during Operation Rising Lion, with numbered key explaining the operation.

The 12-day conflict commenced when Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion, which involved Israeli jets targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, along with the assassination of generals and scientists.

In its opening minutes, Operation Red Wedding saw roughly 30 leading Iranian military officials eliminated in a nearly simultaneous attack as it aimed to eradicate the country’s military capabilities completely.

This proved to be effective as, with three of its most senior generals dead, any possible response from Iran was halted for nearly a whole day, according to the IDF.

The strike on military chiefs was given the code-name Red Wedding from popular TV show Game of Thrones, as it echoed a similar brutal massacre depicted in the series, local media reports.

The scene shows a political wedding reception where the groom and his entire family are betrayed and killed by the family of the bride – much like Israel lulling Iran into a false sense of security before the operation.

Most significant among the 30 deaths was the chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ air force, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.

He was killed alongside fellow officials of the IRGC Aerospace Force – the unit responsible for Iran’s ballistic missiles and drones.

They had been meeting underground with the intention of preparing Iran’s retaliation.

Israel had launched a deception campaign purely to deceive Iran and cause the IRGC air force officials to congregate in the early hours.

Meanwhile Operation Narnia was unfolding, where nine senior Iranian nuclear scientists who were working on a bomb, according to Israel, were also killed.

Iran’s Ayatollah breaks silence after WEEKS cowering in bunker during Israel’s blitz and ‘obliterating’ Trump strikes

The deadly strikes all hit within minutes of each other.

Hours that followed saw 200 Israeli fighter jets strike numerous Iranian nuclear sites, with air defences also destroyed and ballistic missile launches decimated – thwarting any imminent Iranian response.

The IDF said it used 330 munitions on 100 targets, including uranium enrichment plants and key command centres.

By the end of the 12 day conflict, it said it had “fully met, and even exceeded, all the objectives and goals” that were set out prior to the operation.

It was determined by IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir that June would be the time for the complex operation – and that any delay could mean Israel wouldn’t be able to stop Iranian threat later down the line.

Operation Rising Lion was therefore launched as a preemptive campaign with the intention of eliminating “the existential threat to Israel” – Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.

Mossad had reportedly spent years plotting the operation, and even built a drone base instead Iran and smuggled precision weapons systems and commandos over.

Bombshell footage appeared to show Mossad commandos directing attacks from inside Iran at the beginning of the 12-day conflict.

It captured troops on the ground as they helped direct drone strikes against Iran’s missile defences.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
President Donald Trump, left, stands with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuCredit: AP
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Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Tehran, IranCredit: Reuters
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Destroyed storage building and tunnel entrances at Kermanshah missile facilities, western IranCredit: AFP
Satellite view of holes at the Fordow underground complex.
A closer satellite view shows holes and craters on a ridge at Fordow underground complexCredit: Reuters
Illustration of a map showing the path of US bombers attacking Iran.

The US joined in on decimating nuclear facilities on June 22.

To do so, President Donald Trump used some of the US military‘s most advanced weapons.

Twelve 30,000lb bunker busting bombs – officially called the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) – were used to hit the most difficult target.

Then within 24 hours starting Monday, Iran launched a “very weak” response on a US air base in Qatar before a fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel was brokered by the US.

Calls are now ringing louder for the Ayatollah’s regime to be taken down – and for a new democractic republic to take shape.

Trump hinted at regime change in a post of Truth Social as he demanded “Make Iran Great Again” – but the White House said it was not one of the authority’s official goals.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, claimed victory over Israel and America despite his country being hammered in the “12 Day War”.

Khamenei is hiding away in a bunker deep below ground despite the ceasefire as he fears being assassinated by secret agents, the New York Times reports.

The supreme leader was seen in a video sitting in front of the same brown curtain – presumably still cowardly hiding in his bunker – as he had last week.

On Israel, he ludicrously claimed Iran had almost crushed the country and the government in Tel Aviv was on the verge of collapse.

That’s despite the IDF controlling the skies over Tehran, assassinating dozens of top generals and nuclear scientists, and destroying dozens of valuable missile batteries in just 12 days of fighting.

On America, Khamenei claimed to have given the country a “severe slap” to its face and that it had “gained nothing” from the attack on Iran’s nuke plants.

The Ayatollah said: “The American regime entered a direct war because it felt that if it did not, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed.

“However, it gained no achievements from this war.

“Here, too, the Islamic Republic emerged victorious, and in return, the Islamic Republic delivered a severe slap to America’s face.”

Khamenei also bizarrely claimed his rockets had hit the American’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, despite his forces giving advanced warning so the rockets could be all shot down.

The supreme leader was last seen a week ago in a video message, but it’s two weeks since he appeared to his people in the flesh.

Israel-Iran ceasefire could be a diplomatic triumph for Trump

By Professor Michael Clarke

DONALD Trump’s style is diplomacy on steroids.

There’s a concept known as Trump Time, which is three times faster than everybody else wants to move at.

Generally, that creates disasters, but given the law of averages, that sort of disruption sometimes works out.

Despite his F-bomb attack on Israel and Iran for breaking the ceasefire, the events of the last few days could turn into a diplomatic triumph for President Trump.

He took a massive military risk at the weekend to bomb three Iranian sites using B-2 bombers carrying their Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs, alongside 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from an Ohio-class submarine, probably the USS Georgia cruising somewhere under the Arabian Sea.

If US action has not effectively destroyed the Iranian nuclear programme, it has certainly set it back a long way.

When the Iranians responded with an attack on the US airbase in Qatar in a rather careful and measured way, we all wondered what Trump would do.

Would he ignore it or authorise more American airstrikes against Iran?

When he suddenly announced an overnight ceasefire, presumably negotiated over the telephone, it was fairly astonishing – Trump Time again.

But immediate ceasefires tend not to be very stable.

Ceasefires usually take some time to negotiate so everybody knows what’s supposed to happen and when it’s supposed to happen.

A monitoring mechanism is needed to make sure it doesn’t fall apart by accident.

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