69. Israel Attacks Iran: Mossad’s First Assault (Ep 2)

The Rest Is Classified

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How did Israel and the US develop this new type of weapon which they would unleash upon Iran? Who will they rely on to get it into the system? And how will they try to sabotage Iran in silence? Listen as David McCloskey and Gordon Corera discuss Israel’s development of a cyber weapon that could damage the Iranian nuclear program without anyone even knowing it was there. ------------------- To sign up to The Declassified Club, go to ⁠www.therestisclassified.com⁠. To sign up to the free newsletter, go to: ⁠https://mailchi.mp/goalhanger.com/tric-free-newsletter-sign-up⁠ ------------------- Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ nordvpn.com/restisclassified It's risk-free with Nord's 30 day money back guarantee ------------------- Order a signed edition of Gordon's latest book, The Spy in the Archive, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------------------- Email: [email protected] Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@triclassified⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.3	The Code that struck Natanz was a work of engineering bravado every inch as much as the centrifuges it was designed to destroy.
1:03.0	The first thing the Iranian engineers heard was a screeching sound.
1:07.0	That's the machine skidding round inside its case as it loses control. By this point,
1:12.5	if your control panel has not warned you of a problem, it's already too late. You'll hear one machine
1:17.7	taking out the next and the next like dominoes. There was no explosion, just a clatter as the delicate,
1:24.9	precious machines destroyed each other. The Iranians had already been
1:28.7	seeing smaller problems. Machines were failing, parts breaking down. It was not always clear why.
1:35.0	Was it poor engineering standards? Bad parts or designs? No sooner would one problem be fixed,
1:40.4	then more centrifuges would go awry, forcing them to be stopped and checked.
1:46.1	What they did not know was that a hidden hand was remotely manipulating the controls to take
1:52.5	advantage of the delicate nature of the devices.
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