The raid alone was brazen enough. A team of Israeli commandos with high-powered torches blasted their way into a vault of a heavily guarded warehouse deep in Iran and made off before dawn with 5,000 pages of top secret papers on the country¡¯s nuclear program.
Then in a television broadcast a few weeks later, in April 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited the contents of the pilfered documents and coyly hinted at equally bold operations that were already being planned.
¡°Remember that name,¡± he said as he singled out scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the captain of Iran¡¯s covert attempts to assemble a nuclear weapon.
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