Targeting senior leaders critical to an enemy program makes strategic sense from Israel’s perspective.

This year, in late May and June, seven individuals affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two colonels, were killed in separate incidents. Iran, unsurprisingly, has fingered the Mossad in most of the deaths.

The most notorious of these operations was the stunning 2020 killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist.

The message to Tehran was clear: We know where you are, we know what you’re doing, and we can eliminate you at a time of our choosing.

Source: Foreign Policy