July 3, 2025
6. Rising Lion
June 13-15, 2025. Sixty-three hours of precision warfare eliminate Iran's nuclear capability while systematically consuming everyone who made precision possible. Dr. Tehrani dies in strikes he helped target. Captain Amiri dies defending against attacks his investigation enabled. Colonel Karimi is executed for treason that served both countries.
But Marcus discovers the devastating truth: every "enemy" was actually an ally working toward the same goal. Tehrani was developing cancer treatments. Amiri was protecting scientists. Mizrahi was genuinely helping Iranian families. All served multiple loyalties simultaneously, believing they could save everyone from everyone else.The greatest espionage thriller ever told is the story of allies eliminating allies to protect the same world through different calculations.
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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. Calaruga Shark Media.
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My name is Marcus Cole, and I need to tell
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you about the sixty three hours when we prevented nuclear
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war by becoming the kind of people who start conventional wars.
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It began at exactly zero one hundred hours Tehran time
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on Friday, June thirteenth, twenty twenty five, when the first
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Israeli F thirty five crossed into Iranian airspace. From my
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control center, three floors beneath Tel Aviv, I watched satellite
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feeds as Operation Rising Lion, seven years in the making,
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finally unfolded across the Middle East. But I wasn't watching
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a military operation. I was watching the systematic concer rumption
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of everyone who had made it possible. This is episode six,
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Rising Line. Doctor Ahmad Tehrani died in the third wave
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of strikes, killed by precision munitions targeting the Atomic Energy
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Organization facility where he'd spent fifteen years trying to build
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something beautiful for his country. His final transmission reached my
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desk as Israeli bombs were already falling on Tehran. Tell
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my daughter the equations balanced. Tell her the world is
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worth saving. Colonel Darius Karimi died in the seventh wave,
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executed by firing squad in Evan prison as Iranian security
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forces realized the scope of his betrayal. His handler reported
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that Karemi's last words were a request that his family
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believe he died serving Iran, which, in the mathematics of
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preventing nuclear war, was actually true. Captain Raza Amiri died
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in the eighteenth wave, killed by American bunker busting bombs,
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tar getting the underground command center where he was coordinating
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Tehran's defense against attacks his own investigation had helped make possible.
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The man who'd spent five years hunting Israeli operatives died
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defending his homeland from Israeli precision strikes. David Musrahi had
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been executed two months earlier, shot by Iranian intelligence after
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providing information under interrogation that helped Iranian forces prepared defensive
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measures against the very attacks as infiltration had enabled. By
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the time Operation Rising Lion concluded sixty three hours later,
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every Iranian asset who had prevented nuclear war was dead.
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The network that had saved the world was consumed by
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the operation that completed the salvation of the world. But
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I'm getting ahead of myself. To understand what we accomplished
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in what it cost. You need to experience those sixty
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three hours the way I did, coordinating precision strikes while
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watching the people who made precision possible die for the
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accuracy they provided. One began with simultaneous strikes against Iranian
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air defense systems. Precision munitions targeted radar installations, surface to
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air missile batteries, and command centers using coordinates provided by
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Karemi's network over three years of intelligence gathering. The strikes
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were successful beyond our calculations. Iranian air defenses were degraded
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by seventy three percent within the first hour, creating the
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operational freedom necessary for subsequent waves, but success came with
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immediate human cost. Among the facilities destroyed in Wave one
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was the Tehran Air Defense Coordination Center, where Captain Ami
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was leading efforts to coordinate defensive responses against incoming strikes.
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Archive Control Wolf confirms destruction of primary air defense command
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came Karemi's transmission at zero one four seven hours. Captain
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Amir was killed in the initial strikes. His investigation files
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were destroyed. With the facility network exposure risk has been eliminated,
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but justice has been served in ways we never intended.
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Captain Emir's death solved an operational security problem we'd calculated
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for years, but it also eliminated a man whose dedication
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to protecting his homeland had earned respect even from the
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operatives he'd been hunting. Another name for my private file,
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another equation balanced by someone's death. Wave two targeted Iranian
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missile production facilities and storage sites. These strikes used intelligence
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provided by doctor Tehrani's network about hardened bunker locations, manufacturing capabilities,
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and transportation networks. The Shahed Baki Industrial Complex, where Iran
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produced ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israeli cities, was destroyed
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by precision strikes that penetrated underground facilities previously thought in vulnerable.
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The Partian Military complex, where nuclear weapons research had been
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conducted under Project Ahmad, was eliminated by American bunker busting
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bombs that reached laboratories buried forty meters underground. But among
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the facilities destroyed was the Iranian Nuclear Technology Research Institute,
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where doctor Tehrani had worked for fifteen years developing what
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he believed were peaceful applications of atomic energy. Archive control
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confirming destruction of target designation Hotel seven came the strike
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assessment at zero three one four hours complete structural collapse,
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no survivors detected. Doctor Ahmad Tehrani had provided the targeting
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coordinates for his own workplace, knowing that accurate strikes would
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save millions of lives by preventing nuclear war and cost
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his own life by ensuring he couldn't survive the prevention
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of nuclear war. The mathematics required sacrificing the calculator along
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with the calculation. Wave three through Waves seven focused on
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eliminating Iranian nuclear capabilities entirely the Natan's Fuel Enrichment Plant,
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where uranium was processed for both civilian energy and potential
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weapons applications, the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center, where conversion of
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uranium compounds enabled enrichment activities, the Busher Nuclear Power Plant,
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which provided cover for weapons related research. These strikes required
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the highest precision to destroy nuclear capabilities while minimizing radioactive
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contamination that could affect civilian populations. The targeting intelligence came
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from three years of doctor Tehrani's reporting about facility layouts,
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security protocols, and operational schedules. Every strike was successful, every
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target was eliminated, Every objective was achieved, and every achievement
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required destroying the people who made achievement possible. Archive control
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All primary nuclear targets have been neutralized. Came the assessment
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at zero six twenty seven hours estimated setback to Iranian
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nuclear program eight to twelve years. Civilian contamination minimal strategic
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objective accomplished, but the strategic objective had been accomplished by
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consuming the strategic assets who made accomplishment possible. Wave eight
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through Wave twelve targeted Iranian leadership directly, the intelligence headquarters
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where Colonel Kareimi had worked for twenty years, the Revolutionary
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Guard command centers where decisions about nuclear weapons development had
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been made, the residential compounds where Iranian officials lived with
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their families. These strikes used intelligence gathered by the infiltration
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networks we built over three years of Persian carpet operations,
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safe house locations, transportation routes, communication protocols, security procedures, all
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provided by assets who knew their intelligence would likely result
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in their own deaths. Archive control confirming elimination of target
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designation Alpha Prime came the report at zero nine thirty
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four hours. Supreme Leader compounds struck successfully. Iatola Kazimi confirmed dead,
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Revolutionary Guard leadership decapitated, Iranian command structure compromised beyond operational capability.
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The strike that eliminated Iranian nuclear leadership also eliminated the
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networks that had provided intelligence for eliminating Iranian nuclear leadership.
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Success in self destruction had become mathematically indistinguishable, but Iranian
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retaliation was already beginning. At eleven forty seven hours on Friday,
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Iranian missiles began falling on Israeli cities, not the precision
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strikes enabled by years of intelligence gathering, but desperate salvos
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launched from mobile platforms that had survived our initial waves.
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The missiles were largely intercepted by Israelian American defensive systems,
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but some got through. In Tel Aviv, an apartment building collapsed,
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killing seven civilians, including three children. In Haifa, a hospital
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was struck, injuring dozens of medical personnel. In Jerusalem, fragments
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from an intercepted missile damaged the Kanesset building, Archive control
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confirming Iranian retaliation strikes came the damage assessment. Civilian casualties,
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mounting defensive systems, degrading under sustained attack recommend acceleration of
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remaining operational waves. We accelerated Wave thirteen through Wave eighteen
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targeted remaining Iranian military capabilities, missile storage sites, aircraft hangars,
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naval facilities, ammunition depots, everything that could enable sustained retaliation
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against Israeli population centers. But Wave eighteen included strikes against
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the underground command bunker where Captain Amir's replacement was coordinating
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Tehran's defense. The bunker we'd identified through intelligence provided by
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the very operatives Amir had been investigating. Archive control confirmed
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destruction of target designation Bravo Underground came the report. At
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eighteen twenty three hours Saturday, American bunker busters penetrated forty
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meters of reinforced concrete, complete facility destruction, all personnel presumed dead.
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The facility where Iran's best counter intelligence officers were working
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to protect their homeland from foreign infiltration, was destroyed using
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intelligence provided by the foreign infiltration they'd been trying to stop.
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The hunters had been eliminated by the prey they'd been
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hunting by Sunday morning. Iranian retaliation had largely ceased, not
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because they'd chosen to stop, but because they no longer
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had operational capability to continue. Archive control Iranian military response
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appears to be concluded. Came the final assessment at zero
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six to forty hours Sunday. Missile inventory depleted, command structure,
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eliminated defensive systems, destroyed, strategic retaliation capability of effectively zero.
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Operation Rising Line had achieved complete tactical success. Iranian nuclear
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weapons capability had been eliminated. Iranian military retaliation capacity had
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been destroyed. The threat of nuclear war in the Middle
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East had been removed for at least a decade, but
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the success had been achieved by consuming everyone who made
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success possible. The final casualty report reached my desk on
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Monday morning, sixty three hours after the operation began. Iranian
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military dead two thy eight hundred forty seven confirmed, including
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senior leadership across all services. Iranian civilian dead three hundred
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forty seven confirmed, mostly from debris and defensive system failures.
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Israeli civilian dead twenty four confirmed from missile strikes that
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penetrated defensive systems. American military dead zero confirmed due to
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standoff delivery systems in defensive positioning Iranian intelligence assets working
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for Israel. Forty three confirmed dead, including all primary network members.
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The mathematics were precisely what we'd calculated, massive strategic success
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achieved through targeted elimination of specific capabilities with minimal civilian
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casualties relative to the scale of military action required. But
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reading the names in that final report Trani Karemi, Amiri, Misrahi,
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and thirty nine others, I realized we'd achieved something unprecedented
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in the history of warfare. We'd prevented nuclear catastrophe by
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systematically eliminating everyone who helped prevent nuclear catastrophe. MARCUS Director
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Cohen said during the post operation briefing, this may be
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the most successful intelligence operation in human history. We eliminated
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an existential threat to Israeli survival while minimizing civilian casualties
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and avoiding regional war escalation. The network performed exactly as calculated,
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Sir I replied, The network performed exactly as calculated because
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we calculated that it would be consumed by its own success.
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Every asset who made this operation possible is dead. Every
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source who provided targeting intelligence was eliminated by accurate targeting.
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We saved the world by destroying everyone who helped save it.
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That's the mathematics of modern intelligence warfare. Cohen said, networks
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exist to accomplish objectives that make their continued existence unnecessary.
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We built capabilities designed to eliminate themselves along with the threats.
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They were built to eliminate. The moral mathematics were undeniable,
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but unbearable. Operation Rising Lion had succeeded completely and failed
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completely simultaneously. But there was something else in that final
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report that changed everything I thought I understood about the operation.
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We just completed archive control additional intelligence recovered from target
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designation Hotel seven came a message on Tuesday morning. Personal
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effects of doctor Ahmad Terrani include research notes indicating alternative
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uranium applications for medical isotope production. Subject appears to have
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been developing cancer treatment protocols using nuclear technology for civilian
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medical applications. Doctor Terrani hadn't just been providing intelligence to
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prevent nuclear weapons. He'd been trying to transform nuclear technology
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into medical salvation. His peaceful research that we'd thought was
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being corrupted for weapons development was actually being corrupted for healing. Development.
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We'd eliminated a man who was using nuclear science to
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cure cancer, believing he was using nuclear science to cause cancer.
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The equations had balanced, but we'd been calculating based on
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incomplete variables. Marcus came another message an hour later, additional
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intelligence from Target Designation Alpha Underground. Captain Emir's investigation files
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include recommendations for enhanced security protocols to protect Iranian nuclear
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scientists from foreign assassination. Subject appears to have been trying
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to protect researchers like doctor Tarani, not expose them. Captain
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Amari hadn't just been hunting Israeli operatives. He'd been trying
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to protect Iranian scientists whose research he believed served legitimate purposes.
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His investigation of foreign intelligence operations was designed to safeguard
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people he considered valuable assets to Iran's civilian nuclear development.
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We'd eliminated a man who was trying to protect the
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very people we'd been trying to protect, believing he was
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trying to expose the people we were trying to protect.
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The moral mathematics were becoming infinitely more complex. Archive Control
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final intelligence assessment from Persian Carpet Archives came the last
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message on Wednesday. Subject David Mizrahi's business operations in Tehran
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included legitimate import export activities that provided employment for seventeen
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Iranian families. Subject appears to have been using intelligence cover
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to develop actual business relationships that supported local economic development.
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David Misrahi hadn't just been infiltrating Iranian society to gather intelligence.
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He'd been building legitimate business relationships that supported Iranian families
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who had welcomed him as a friend and business partner.
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We'd eliminated a man who was actually helping the people
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he was supposed to be betraying, while betraying the people
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he was supposed to be helping. Every assumption we'd made
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about our assets motivations had been simultaneously correct and wrong.
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Every calculation we based on their loyalties had been simultaneously
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accurate and inverted. Doctor Tehrani had been serving Israeli intelligence
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to prevent Iranian nuclear weapons while serving Iranian society to
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advance Iranian medical research. Captain Amiri had been serving Iranian
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security to protect Iranian scientists, while inadvertently serving Israeli objectives
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by protecting the very scientists Israel needed to protect. David
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Misrahi had been serving Israeli intelligence to penetrate Iranian sociat society,
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while serving Iranian society to support families who trusted him
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as a friend. Colonel Koremi had been serving Israeli intelligence
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to prevent nuclear war while serving Iranian interest by preventing
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Iran from developing weapons that would make Iran a target
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for nuclear war. Every person who died an Operation Rising
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Lion had been serving multiple loyalties simultaneously, believing they were
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protecting everyone they served from the consequences of everyone else
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they served. The network that prevented nuclear war had been
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composed of people who were preventing nuclear war from multiple
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directions simultaneously, without realizing they were working toward the same
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objective through different calculations. We'd eliminated our own allies, believing
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they were potential enemies. We destroyed our own network believing
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it was threatened by external enemies. We'd consumed our own assets,
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believing they were being compromised by hostile assets. Operation Rising
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