How Israel tracked top nuclear and military officials in Iran

You have to hand it to the Israelis. They always find a way of eliminating their enemies. In Lebanon they destroyed the hierarchy of Hezbollah by putting mini explosives in all their mobile phones which detonated as they went about their business. In Iran, hunting for top nuclear scientists and leaders of the Islannic Revolutionary Guard Corps and political leaders, they focused their attention on the bodyguards for all of them, according to a brilliant piece in The New York Times today. Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, had ordered all his top people not to use mobiles because of the fear of being tracked by Israel's phone hackers. But he forgot to tell all the bodyguards and drivers who went ahead chatting on Whatsapp on their phones, providng a direct-hit link for Mossad and the Israeli air force. It was so simple but devastatingly effective. In the short war between Israel and Iran, eventually backed up by Donald Trump's B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles, it wasn't just the targeting of the three Irnaian nuclear sites which had such an impact, it was the focused assassinations by Israel of nuclear scientists and top military people. Although Iran now realises it was a huge mistake vis a vis the bodyguards and drivers, I am sure Mossad will come up with something else if/when in the future more assassinations are carried out in Iran. Even the Iranian regime admits that Mossad has penetrated the highest echelons of Iranian government which must create a permanent sense of paranoia in Tehran.