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ISRAEL IS AT THE CENTER pin. Military units that practice with geting the Iran Center for Advanced cross-border attack tunnels. In addition
OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL Israeli forces gain real combat exper- Centrifuges warehouse at Natanz, to an underground barrier, there is a
SECURITY ORDER tise and signal that Jerusalem has al- explosives were hidden in 2019 in six-meter (20-foot) high above-ground
The recent five-day drill in the Red Sea lies increasingly working to confront building materials to be used in the fence.
was the first time in history that forc- potential threats in the region. Where centrifuge hall, then triggered on July More than 1,200 people worked
es from Bahrain, Israel, the UAE and belligerent actors once faced a se- 2, 2020. The warehouse had been used on the project. The iron and steel used
the U.S. Navy trained together. There ries of isolated countries, they’ll now to precisely calibrate centrifuges and were “equivalent to the length of a
is now a large, organized bloc of coun- have to tangle with an organized alli- the blast destroyed a significant quanti- steel wall from Israel to Australia,” and
tries opposed to Iran’s ambitions of re- ance. (Seth J. Frantzman, Wall Street ty of hardware. the concrete used was “enough to pave
gional hegemony. After the Abraham Journal) On June 23, 2021, an armed quad- a road from Israel to Bulgaria,” said
Accords altered the geopolitical land- MOSSAD RECRUITED TOP copter, smuggled into Iran piece by Fence Administration Director Brig.-
scape, Israel was moved from the U.S. IRANIAN SCIENTISTS TO piece, was used by a joint Iranian and Gen. Eran Ofir. The barrier “does not
European Command’s area of respon- Israeli team to launch missiles at the allow for the construction of addition-
sibility to Central Command, making BLOW UP KEY NUCLEAR Iran Centrifuge Technology Company al tunnels to infiltrate into the State of
it easier for the U.S. to organize joint FACILITY in Karaj where advanced centrifuges Israel.” (Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem
military drills in Israel. Another recent Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency were built. The drone was then piloted Post) continued on next page
joint training exercise involved 500 recruited a team of Iranian nuclear sci- back to the team on the ground, who
U.S. Marines who trained with Israeli entists to carry out a covert operation spirited it away to be used again. Crossword Puzzle
commandos. which blew up the underground A1000 The three operations involved Solution to puzzle on page 21A
In October, air force units from centrifuge hall at Natanz in April 2021, scores of agents on the ground. The
France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, though they believed that they were revelations underline Israel’s capaci-
the UK and the U.S. flew in the bienni- working for international dissident ty for striking at the Iranian regime’s
al Blue Flag drill over Israel, the larg- groups. After the explosion, the scien- most secret and strongly fortified sites.
est number of countries in the exercise tists responsible were spirited away to (Jake Wallis Simons, Jewish Chronicle
since it began in 2013. In July, Israel a safe location. - UK)
hosted American, British and German Some of the explosives used were ISRAEL COMPLETES
drone operators. In June, Israel, the dropped into the compound by a drone, UPGRADED BARRIER
UK and the U.S. flew F-35s together while others were smuggled into the
as part of the Tri-Lightning exercise. In facility hidden in boxes of food on a WITH GAZA
March, Cyprus and France joined the catering truck. The explosion demol- After three years of construction, Isra-
Israel-led Noble Dina naval drill for ished 90% of the centrifuges, putting el has completed the 65-km. upgraded
the first time. the complex out of action for up to nine barrier comprised of an iron wall, sen-
These exercises are building a new months. sors and concrete along its border with
alliance system, with Israel as its linch- In an earlier Mossad operation tar- Gaza in order to remove the threat of

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