Overview

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said eight people were detained in northeastern Iran on suspicion of trying to relay site coordinates and information on senior commanders to Israel’s Mossad.
• Officials said the suspects received online training and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps were seized.
• A New York Times account, echoed by multiple outlets, reported that Israel tracked bodyguards’ phones to locate high-level targets, including a June 16 bunker meeting near Tehran.
• The June 16 strike destroyed the bunker’s entrances, killed guards outside and left President Masoud Pezeshkian lightly wounded, according to those reports.
• Iran has intensified internal crackdowns since the June fighting, with state media citing up to 21,000 arrests and recent executions for alleged espionage, including nuclear scientist Rouzbeh Vadi on August 9.