June 26, 2025
4. The Infiltration
Captain Amiri's investigation dismantles the old network as Marcus builds a new one. Over three years, weapons and operatives are smuggled into Iran piece by piece, establishing drone bases and operational capabilities for the ultimate mission. David Mizrahi, a young Israeli-Iranian double agent, penetrates Tehran society while struggling with gambling addiction and the psychological cost of betraying people who trust him.
As the Persian Carpet network grows, so does Iranian paranoia about foreign infiltration. When Amiri's investigation finally exposes the network, Iran accelerates nuclear development in response to perceived threats. The infrastructure designed to prevent nuclear war becomes the catalyst for the very conflict it was meant to avoid. Some networks exist only to consume themselves.
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Operation Rising Lion is a fictional series based on real
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world events. Any similarities between persons living or dead is
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purely coincidental. Caalaruga Shark Media.
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My name is Marcus Cole, and I need to tell
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you about the operation that took three years to execute
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in sixty seconds to destroy everything we'd built. By twenty
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twenty three, Captain Amir's investigation had eliminated most of our
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operational infrastructure in Iran. Safehouses, compromised communication channels, exposed equipment suppliers, arrested.
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The network that had enabled the Rahemi assassination was systematically
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being dismantled by a man seeking justice for his murdered friend.
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But while Ami was hunting the ghosts of past operations,
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we were building the foundation for an operation that would
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dwarf everything we'd accomplished before, an infiltration so deep, so comprehensive,
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that when the time came to prevent nuclear war, we
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would strike from within Iran itself. This is episode four
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the infiltration. We called it Persian Carpet, a network of assets, weapons, caches,
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and operational capabilities woven so tightly into Iranian society that
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pulling one thread would reveal a dozen others. It would
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take three years to complete and would ultimately cost the
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lives of everyone who made it possible. But first we
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had to solve the David Misrahi problem. David was twenty
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four years old, an Israeli citizen of Iranian descent whose
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family had fled Tehran during the nineteen seventy nine revolution. Brilliant, multilingual,
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and psychologically profiled as someone who could maintain operational security
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under extreme pressure. He was also desperate for money to
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pay his gambling debts, and naive enough to believe he
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could work for Israeli intelligence without consequences. The recruitment happened
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in a Haifa coffee shop in January twenty twenty three.
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David thought he was meeting someone who wanted to hire
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him as a translator for business ventures in the Gulf States. Instead,
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he found himself talking to a Masad case officer who
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knew about his financial problems, his family history, and his
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ability to pass for an Iranian national. We need someone
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who can blend into Iranian society, the case officer explained,
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someone who understands the culture, speaks the language without accent,
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and can establish legitimate business relationships that provide operational cover.
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David agreed to what he thought would be simple intelligence gathering,
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photographing buildings, monitoring government facilities, reporting on military movements. He
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had no idea he was being recruited for the most
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ambitious penetration operation in Massad history. The insertion took six
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months of preparation. David underwent intensive training and operational security,
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covert communication, and weapons handling. His cover identity was meticulously
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constructed a German Iranian businessman exploring import opportunities, complete with
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corporate documentation, banking relationships, and a legend that would withstand
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routine security scrutiny. But David wasn't the only asset we
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were inserting into Iran. He was part of a larger
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operation involving dozens of operatives, each unaware of the others,
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each playing a specific role in building our infiltration network.
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From my Tel Aviv control center, I coordinated the most
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complex logistical operation i'd ever attempted weapons smuggled through commercial
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shipping channels, electronic equipment disguised as consumer goods, explosive devices
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concealed in legitimate cargo shipments, and most critically, the components
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for establishing covert drone bases that could operate independently within
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Iranian territory. The scale was unprecedented. We weren't just running
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intelligence operations in Iran. We were building a shadow military
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capability that could function with or without communication with Israeli
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command structures. But every component we smuggled, every asset we inserted,
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every operational capability we established, was another variable in an
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equation that was becoming impossible to solve without catastrophic consequences.
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Doctor Ahmad Tehrani was watching our infiltration efforts with growing alarm.
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I've been monitoring unusual import pattern, he reported through encrypted
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channels in April twenty twenty three. Commercial shipments with technical
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specifications that don't match their declared purposes, Electronic equipment that's
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more sophisticated than what legitimate businesses would require. Someone is
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building operational capabilities inside Iran. Tehrani's intelligence work had evolved
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beyond nuclear research. His access to a money in customs data,
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combined with his technical expertise, made him valuable for monitoring
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our own infiltration activities as well as Iranian countermeasures. But
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his psychological state was deteriorating under the pressure of betraying
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his homeland. While watching it being systematically penetrated by foreign
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intelligence services. I dream about most in Rahemi every night.
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He transmitted his grandsons asking why bad people killed their grandfather,
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his wife asking if our research was worth men dying
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for it. I still can't answer those questions. The guilt
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was consuming Tehrani, but we needed his cooperation for the
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final phase of our infiltration. Iranian security protocols had been
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enhanced since Rahimi's assassination, making traditional insertion methods too risky.
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We required inside assistance to position our most critical assets
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without detection. The mathematical problem was Stark maintained Tehrani's psychological
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stability while using his axis for operations that would likely
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result in his death if discovered. But the larger problem
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was Captain AMI's investigation, which was adapting to our evolving
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operational methods. Amir had concluded that the Rahimi assassination represented
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a fundamental shift in Israeli capabilities. The technical sophistications suggested
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years of preparation and resources far beyond traditional intelligence operations.
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He'd begun looking for patterns indicating systematic penetration rather than
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isolated incidents. The Wolf reports increased scrutiny of commercial import channels.
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Colonel Karremi transmitted in May twenty twenty three. Captain Ami
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has requested authorization to audit shipping records and inspects selected
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cargo shipments. He's looking for equipment that could be used
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for intelligence operations. This was exactly what we've been afraid of.
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Amir's investigation was expanding from historical analysis to real time interdiction.
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If he identified our burn infiltration activities, the entire Persian
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carpet operation would be exposed before completion. But we couldn't
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eliminate a marry without Doctor Tehrani's cooperation, and Tehrani had
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refused to provide intelligence for targeting Iranian personnel. He respected.
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The network that was supposed to prevent nuclear war was
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being constrained by the moral boundaries of the very people
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who made it possible. Meanwhile, David Missrai was establishing his
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cover identity in Tehran with remarkable success. David's Iranian heritage
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gave him cultural knowledge that trained operatives couldn't replicate. He
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understood social customs, business practices, and bureaucratic procedures that enabled
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him to navigate Iranian society without triggering security attention. Within
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six months, he'd established a legitimate import business, developed relationships
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with Iranian government officials, and identified storage facilities that could
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be used for caching weapons and equipment. But David's success
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was also his vulnerability. The deeper he penetrated Iranian society,
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the more difficult extraction would become if his cover was blown,
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And his gambling addiction, which had made him vulnerable to recruitment,
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was creating operational security risks we hadn't anticipated. Asset Carpet
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seven reports financial irregularities in target's business operations came a
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surveillance report in August twenty twenty three, subject is making
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unauthorized transactions and maintaining contact with gambling establishments, recommend immediate intervention.
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David was using his operational funds for gambling, creating audit
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trails that could expose his intelligence activities to Iranian security services.
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The psychological pressure of living under deep cover in enemy
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territory was manifesting in exactly the self destructive behavior that
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had made him recruitable in the first place. We faced
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an impossible choice extract David and lose three years of
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network development, or maintain his placement and re risk him
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exposing the entire operation through personal recklessness. The mathematics favored
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maintaining his placement, but the human cost was becoming increasingly apparent.
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Marcus Director Cohen said during a secure briefing in September
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twenty twenty three, we need to accelerate the Persian carpet timeline.
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Intelligence indicates Iran is moving toward nuclear breakout faster than
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we calculated. We may need to implement the final operation
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within eighteen months instead of three years. This was the
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nightmare scenario we'd planned for but hoped to avoid. Accelerating
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the timeline meant accepting higher risks, reduced operational security and
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increased probability of network exposure, but it also meant we
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might have the capability to prevent Iranian nuclear weapons development
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before it reached the point of no return. The acceleration
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required expanding our infiltration activities precisely when Captain Emir's investigation
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was making those activities more dangerous. We needed to smuggle
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additional equipment, insert more operatives, and establish backup capabilities while
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avoiding detection by someone who was specifically looking for evidence
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of our presence. Doctor Trani's cooperation became even more critical,
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We needed his access to Iranian security protocols to identify
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safe insertion windows for our most sensitive operations. I'll help
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you prevent nuclear weapons, he transmitted, but I won't help
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you hurt Iranian people who aren't involved in weapons development.
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If you want my assistance, promise me the final operation
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will target facilities, not civilians. Tehrani's demand created an operational
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constraint that complicated our targeting calculations. Precision strikes required intelligence
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about Iranian defensive capabilities that would likely result in casualties
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among security personnel, but Tehrani's moral boundaries limited our access
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to that intelligence. The network that was supposed to enable
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precision operations was being limited by the conscience of the
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people who made precision possible. By late twenty twenty three,
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our Persian Carpet operation had achieved unprecedented penetration of Iranian territory,
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weapons caches in six major cities, communication networks that could
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function independently of Israeli command structures. Drone Base is capable
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of launching coordinated attacks against multiple targets simultaneously, and David
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Mizrahi at the center of it all maintaining his cover
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identity while struggling with gambling, addiction, isolation, and the psychological
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pressure of betraying people who had accepted him as a friend.
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But Captain Ami was closing in archive control emergency status
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came Koremi's message in December twenty twenty three. Captain Amir
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has identified irregular import patterns consistent with intelligence operations. He's
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requesting authorization to arrest thesis civic individuals for questioning, including
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your asset Carpet seven. David Misrahi was about to be exposed.
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The decision required calculating variables. We'd hope never to face.
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Extract David and preserve his life, but lose operational capabilities
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that had taken years to develop, maintain his placement and
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preserve operational capabilities, but accept his likely death under interrogation.
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David made the decision for us. I won't run, he
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transmitted when we offered extraction. These people trusted me. They
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welcomed me into their businesses, their homes, their families. If
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I disappear now, they'll know I betrayed them. I'll accept
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whatever happens, but I won't make their trust meaningless by running.
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David Misrahi chose to remain in place, knowing it would
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likely result in his death, rather than expose the Iranian
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civilians who had unknowingly assisted his intelligence operations. Another name
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for my private file, another human cause lost in the
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equation of preventing nuclear war. But David's arrest in January
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twenty twenty four triggered a chain reaction that exposed much
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of our infiltration network. Under interrogation, he revealed locations, communication protocols,
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and operational methods that enabled Iranian security services to roll
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up capabilities we'd spent three years developing. The Persian carpet
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operation designed to enable precision strikes that would prevent nuclear war,
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was being systematically destroyed by the moral choices of the
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people who made it possible. Captain Amiri's investigation had achieved
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what he sought for over three years, justice for his
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friend's murder and protection of his homeland from foreign infiltration.
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But Iranian leadership interpreted the exposure of our infiltration network
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as evidence that Israeli military action was imminent. They accelerated
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nuclear weapons development in response to what they have perceived
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as preparation for imminent attack. Iran's pursuit of nuclear capability
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was being accelerated by our success in building capability to
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prevent nuclear capability. In March twenty twenty four, Iranian intelligence
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reported they were six months away from producing weapons grade
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uranium in quantities sufficient for multiple nuclear devices. They'd concluded
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that only rapid completion of nuclear deterrence would provide protection
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against the Israeli capabilities. They discovered the network designed to
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prevent nuclear war was triggering the acceleration of nuclear weapons development.
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But some of our Persian carpet capabilities had survived detection,
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hidden assets, backup communication channels, and operational resources that Captain
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Amir's investigation hadn't discovered. When Israeli leadership authorized Operation Rising
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Lion in June twenty twenty five, we had sufficient infiltration
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capabilities to coordinate precision strikes that destroyed Iran's nuclear weapons
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program while minimizing civilian casualties. Doctor Ahmad Tarrani died in
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those strikes, killed by military action his intelligence had enabled.
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David Misrahi had been executed months earlier after providing information
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under interrogation that helped Iranian security services prepare defensive measures
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against the very attacks. As infiltration had made possible, and
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Captain Reza Amir died defending Tehran from precision strikes that
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were only possible because of the network. He'd spent five
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years systematically exposing and neutralizing the Persian Carpet operation had
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succeeded and failed simultaneously. It enabled the military action that
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prevented nuclear war, while consuming everyone who made that action possible.
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From my Tel Aviv control center, I watched satellite feeds
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of Israeli air strikes destroying Iranian nuclear facilities that doctor
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Tehrani had helped us identify, using intelligence provided by networks
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that Captain Amir had helped us understand, coordinated through capabilities
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that David Msrahi had died to establish. Three years of infiltration,
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dozens of operatives, hundreds of Iranian assets, all consumed by
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the operation they enabled. Sometimes preventing catastrophe requires building the
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capability to create different catastrophe. Sometimes the infrastructure for salvation
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becomes the foundation for destruction. Sometimes the mathematics of protection
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and elimination become indistinguishable. I keep a photograph of David
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Msrahi on my desk, not his operational mugshot, but a
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picture from a family gathering before he was recruited. A
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young man who thought he was translating business documents and
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ended up sacrificing his life to prevent nuclear war. Next
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to it, I keep Captain Amir's final investigation report recovered
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from Iranian intelligence archives after Rising Lion, a meticulous analysis
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of our operational methods that helped Iran defend against the
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very capabilities it documented. The infiltration phase of Operation Rising
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Line was complete, the network was in place, the capabilities
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were established, and everyone who made it possible was either
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dead or about to die. Next time, I'll tell you
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about the final decision, how Prime Minister Weiss calculated that
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nuclear war was inevitable unless we acted immediately, How President
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Mitchell calculated that regional war was preferable to global catastrophe,
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and how Marcus Cole calculated that saving the world required
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destroying everyone who helped save it. Some decisions take years
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to implement, some networks exist only to consume themselves, and
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some equations balance only in the mathematics of mutually assured destruction.
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