Israeli operatives successfully penetrated Iran’s core prior to the Friday morning airstrikes of Operation “Rising Lion,” significantly undermining Iran’s missile systems and air defenses through a range of covert missions.

Mossad intelligence operatives managed to sneak weaponry into Iran, effectively neutralizing defense systems that posed a threat to Israel’s military strength.

These agents executed “significant measures” involving specialized weaponry, orchestrating its distribution throughout Iran to strike targeted regions, as reported by an Israeli security source to The Post.

“Significant intelligence was gathered and surveillance was conducted to incriminate senior members of the Iranian defense establishment and nuclear scientists who were eliminated,” the source said. “This was carried out alongside a covert operational campaign targeting Iran’s strategic missile array.”

The stealth campaign was conducted in three separate operations at the same time as Israel launched its airstrike, each targeting specific weaponry and defense systems in Iran.

Commando units deployed precision-guided weapons near Iran’s surface-to-air missile defenses and targeted the Iranian systems.

A second operation set up strike systems and mounted technology onto vehicles that were launched at Iranian air defense systems.

The final operation targeted Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers at a base outside of Tehran.

Explosive-laden drones had been smuggled in and stashed in the heart of Iran before the unmanned aerial vehicles flew to the base and destroyed the launchers that had “posed a threat to Israeli strategic and civilian targets.”

The sabotage operations allowed Israel’s airstrikes to destroy radars and other surface-to-air defenses.

Nuclear plants and uranium enrichment facilities were also targeted.

Three high-ranked Iranian officials were killed in the operation along with at least two scientists.

Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of the country’s military, and advisor to the supreme leader advisor Ali Shamkhani, are believed to have been killed in the barrage, according to the Times of Israel.