Welcome to the BDB Situation Report. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed.

Now, first up, the war between Israel and Iran

officially came to an end earlier this week. Perhaps you heard about it. But the outcome wasn't

shaped by firepower alone. It was Israel's intelligence apparatus that helped tip the scales.

Oded Alam, his Mossad's former deputy head of global operations. They'll join us for more on

that. Later in the show, the war may have been fought with missiles, drones and jets, but it was

ended with a mix of hard and soft power from the White House. The Heritage Foundation's Stephen

Yates, good friend of the show, stops by to look at how the Trump

administration brought the conflict to a close and what that strategy tells us about U.S. power

in the world today. But first, today's situation reports spotlight. Now, the war may have played

out in the skies over Tehran, but its outcome was shaped long before the first missile

was fire. Years of intelligence groundwork laid by Mossad gave Israel a decisive edge. Reports say

Mossad embedded dozens of local collaborators inside Iran, mapping air defenses, identifying nuclear

scientists, and tracking senior IRGC commanders.

Covert drone bases were built deep inside Iranian territory, and drone components were smuggled in

piece by piece, sometimes in suitcases. So when the first strikes came, they were surgical, as you

saw.

Air defense systems were crippled in minutes.

Key targets were taken out before they could react.

Now, for more on this, I'm joined by Oded Alam.

He's the former deputy head of global operations from Assad.

Odette spent over 22 years in Israeli intelligence, leading high-level counterterrorism operations

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