If this conflict shows anything, it's that traitors and moles within are a huge threat and counter & military intelligence should be highest priority. Iran has been heavily infiltrated, it's shocking to see how freely Mossad teams with drone bases and ATGMs are running around inside the country, with moles likely in or around the decision-making rooms. They can attack HVTs almost at will. They need a Chinese style purge after and attempt to bring the public back onside.
How well does PA detect traitors, I have doubts. It's probably not bad in the India context but Western context, we could be cooked.
It's because of the Iranian government officials have a soft spot for criminals, thieves and traitors. It happened that This "civilized-beheaviour-towards-traitors" at the first day of the zionist agression against Iran, caused death for the same military officials in IRGC who tolerated smuggling, corruption, bribery and thievery. they became victim of being blind towards corruption inside the country.
How is this linked to becoming a mossad agent you say? They never tortured corrupt officials to death in front of Iranian citizens, so they gave the green light to the culture of bribery, corruption and disloyality. Some traitor citizens thought ok, if the officials act like this, I will also betray my country for money and they joined mossad.
So corrupt officials/military/citizens caused the death/martyrdom of those same figures who never prevented corruption, betrayal and thievery. One of the killed, Shamkhani, was a major corrupt figure, together with his family.
So the government and IRGC should have hanged corrupt officials and burnt a few of them alive to show that betrayal of fatherland, even financial, is punished severely and by death penalty only. Then they would build principles and a culture of moral based conduct, which would not cause what you described. Look in Yemen
How did our wise Majusi Sassanian ancestors think:
A newly uncovered stone carving in Iran’s Fars province has revealed how deeply the ancient Persians valued loyalty and despised betrayal. The Sassanid inscription, found in the historic region of Marvdasht, ties moral conduct to divine law, making it clear that betrayal was not just a personal fault—it was a spiritual offense.
Even our Achaemenid kings knew about the dangers of Lying/corruption:
They educate their boys from five to twenty years old, and teach them only three things: riding and archery and honesty. (Herodotus, Histories 1.136)
So, consequently, there arose a decree that we still use even now, to teach the boys simply, just as we teach servants in their conduct toward us, to tell the truth, not to deceive, not to steal, and not to take advantage, and to punish whoever acts contrary to this, so that being instilled with such a habit, they might become tamer citizens. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.6.33).