Yes. The most important thing is broken securely protocols. Frankly, I find meeting next door in an obvious building as ridiculous and terribly stupid.
It was actually smart - to a degree. If they are having the meeting THAT close to the embassy, then they should have just done the meeting in the ACTUAL embassy building and not consulate. It would have raised the stakes greatly for Israeli.
There is simply no precedent to bombing a embassy ON PURPOSE. What NATO did to Chinese embassy in the 90’s was an accident and even President Clinton apologized (which is unprecedented for a USpresident) and a monetary compensation was set. They simply missed their target that was on the same street as Chinese embassy.
However, in case of Iran when you pack that many important people into a room then Israel has a tough decision to make of worrying about repercussions now or later. And they decided later and the benefit was worth the violation of international.
Would they have done the same if it was the actual embassy? I’d think not. That is probably the biggest declaration of war a country can make.
This stupidity has now lead an entire country to think about retaliation or not. THAT is what pisses me off the most. These martyrs have written checks they can’t cash.
I simply don’t know why after 15+ years in Syria, iran has not built a secure underground system with bunkers for various groups to meet.
I mean Hamas has done that for years and Hezbollah has done that for decades.
Yet Iran cannot set up basic secure bunkers or a network tunnels so people avoid being above ground and being spotted by various ISR methods.
Security of senior officials is not only to protect their lives. More importantly, it’s about avoiding this exact situation.
THAT is the biggest failure of the IRI not this ridiculous dribble about retaliation.
I agree. Opsec is simply an afterthought among IRGC. They severely lack at this spy v spy game that Israel has honed its craft for decades.
I would not be suprised if every phone call in Syria is tapped and data aggregated by Mossad into a metadata database that tracks for key words or phrases. That is just basic 101 stuff vs what NSA has built.