Mossad's 'Red Wedding': Game of Thrones Inspires Iranian Generals' Killing

The Israeli portal Walla claims that the IDF and Mossad special operation to eliminate Iranian generals was inspired by the popular science fiction series Game of Thrones by George Martin.

“The military and intelligence services have been painstakingly planning the first strike on Iran for months. It all began with a ten-hour meeting in an Israeli hotel in the fall of 2024. Senior officers discussed the goals of the war — to sharply weaken Iran’s air defenses, reduce its missile arsenal and, of course, destroy its nuclear facilities,” the publication says.

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It was necessary to “break the enemy’s back with brutal, creative and unexpected military tactics,” says Walla. So the Israeli command decided to simultaneously eliminate key people in the Iranian military leadership and thereby deprive the enemy of the ability to quickly respond to the attack.

_{This was an extremely complex task, as the targets were approximately 1500 kilometers away , the publication states.}

The operation was codenamed "Red Wedding ." The Israelis drew inspiration from the book series and television series "Game of Thrones": in one of the most famous scenes, Lord Frey marries his daughter off to an ally, then betrays him and murders his wedding guests. A similarly unexpected and swift assassination was intended for the Iranian generals.

On the night of June 13, the plan was executed. Israeli fighter jets received their missions and carried them out successfully. The Iranian Chief of Staff, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, and the head of the Emergency Command were killed, some in their beds. Soon after, the entire Iranian Air Force leadership was lured into a bunker, where they were killed.

Walla quotes a source who describes the chaos in Iran after the dismantling of chains of command in the army and the IRGC:

"In the first minutes, when the army and the Revolutionary Guard were trying to get the big picture and give orders for a counterattack, there was no one left who could make decisions."

"As a result, about a thousand prepared ballistic missiles, which Iran had previously planned to immediately launch at Israeli cities in the event of a war, were never launched. Only in the evening were the Iranians able to organize a retaliatory missile attack, and on a much smaller scale. The regime has not yet recovered from the blow to the military command," the Israeli publication claims.

Iran's Fars news agency claims that in response to the string of assassinations, the country's leadership has appointed around 10 potential replacements for each person holding a sensitive or command position to ensure that the chain of command does not become disrupted following the assassinations and assassination attempts.

Russian political scientist Maxim Zharov emphasizes the risks of this approach to building chains of command:

 The "experience" of Israel's liquidations of Hamas leaders suggests that such artificial personnel rotation by the enemy's hands may well take place. And it is effective in its own way, especially in countries and proxy structures run by religious fundamentalists.

So, the collapse of power that occurred in Iran within 24 hours of the Israeli attack, and the relatively confident governance of the country 24 hours later, have a perfectly realistic explanation. A change in the country's governing protocols has occurred. Another issue is that such personnel rotations at the hands of the enemy are always prone to mistakes in the selection of a "successor," who, the further the situation goes, the more likely it is that this successor will turn out to be a deep-seated agent of the enemy.

So now Iran, if it has really adopted such “methods” of governing the country, is going through its most important test in its modern history,” he writes on his Telegram channel.