An important Iranian senior official, Ali Shamkhani, who also serves as a top advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, was previously rumored to have died in last month’s Israeli strike. However, over the past weekend, he surprisingly appeared on crutches at a funeral in Tehran for fallen military commanders.
So what exactly happened? Amid a series of precise assassinations targeting 30 Iranian commanders, how did this navy admiral Ali Shamkhani manage to survive such a deadly assault? And why did he wait until these death rumors were at their peak before stepping out to clear the air?
展开剩余92%A Direct Missile Strike
Ali Shamkhani was once at the very center of Iran’s power structure—serving as a senior advisor to the supreme leader and chief of national security. On June 13, Israel launched a military strike against Iran, with missiles directly hitting Shamkhani’s duplex apartment located at the top floors of a high-rise building. This event triggered a conflict that lasted for 12 days, with the U.S. joining the fray shortly thereafter.
Images and videos released by Iranian state media showed severe damage to the apartment, situated in a wealthy northern district of Tehran. The ceilings and floors had collapsed, leaving the building in ruins.
At the time, official sources reported that Shamkhani suffered serious injuries and was rushed to a hospital for treatment. The New York Times, citing close contacts of Shamkhani’s family and Iranian officials, went further to claim he had died.
Following the attack, Shamkhani remained out of public view, and news about him fell silent, which fueled the circulating rumors of his demise.
Yet, it was only last weekend that he shattered the death narrative himself.
Supporting himself on a crutch, he showed up at the funeral of a military commander. Facing the national TV cameras, his voice was hoarse, breath unstable, and he was even hooked up to a breathing aid.
“I thought it was an earthquake,” he recalled, “rubble fell on me, I was trapped for three hours, nearly suffocating.”
He screamed for his wife and children, clinging to survival instincts and faint cries for help until rescuers arrived. Despite internal injuries, hearing loss, and a fractured sternum, he survived—though at a heavy personal cost.
Shamkhani’s survival itself was a defiant message. To the cameras, he stated he understood why Israel wanted him dead, though he could not reveal the reasons. His words carried weight far beyond any weapon.
However, his escape does not diminish the cold efficiency of Israel’s decapitation operation.
During the days his death rumors spread, within just 12 days, Iran’s military elite were subject to a bloody purge: 3 lieutenant generals, 8 rear admirals, and 19 brigadier generals—pillars of the armed forces—were reported killed.
They hailed from the Iranian Army, the Revolutionary Guards, Aerospace Forces, and even secret drone and intelligence units.
But Israel’s objectives extended far beyond that. The operation was code-named “Naniya,” with the core mission to dismantle the “brain” behind Iran’s nuclear program.
The Israeli ambassador to France publicly admitted that 14 Iranian nuclear scientists were “specially targeted.” On a single night, 9 scientists were assassinated in their sleep with precision.
One surviving scientist fled to his father’s home, hoping for safety, only to find the bombs relentlessly pursuing him.
The logic of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad was stark: destroying factories can be repaired by Iranians within months, but eliminating a top scientist can set the entire program back years.
How deep is the infiltration? Israel’s foreign minister once bluntly declared: “We know every substitute, where they live!”
This was more than a threat—it was brazen boasting that Israel possessed comprehensive knowledge of Iran’s nuclear talent pool, from core experts to backups, all under close surveillance.
Who’s Pulling the Strings?
Within this bloody wave of assassinations, a silent psychological warfare is also unfolding.
Before Shamkhani’s public appearance to dispel rumors, the media widely circulated news that another top Iranian commander, Ali Shadmani, had been killed in an explosion.
Given the similarity of the names—Shamkhani and Shadmani—and both holding top command roles, confusion was inevitable.
Is this chaos from Tehran’s internal leaks, or a deliberate Israeli smokescreen, using a false target to distract from the true objective? Or perhaps Iran, having confirmed Shamkhani’s survival, deliberately planted a fake death report to confuse its adversaries?
No one truly knows.
The intelligence battlefield in the Middle East resembles a vast maze, where every piece of information may be a trap, and every public statement contains hidden meanings. Both sides use ambiguous intelligence to disrupt each other’s calculations.
This war rages not just on battlefields, but inside people’s minds.
A Thunderous Counterattack
Confronted with such rampant infiltration and assassination on home soil, Iran’s retaliation was equally fierce.
Within 12 days of the attacks, a secret nationwide crackdown swept across 12 provinces, resulting in over 700 arrests of suspected Israeli spies.
In Tehran alone, authorities seized over 10,000 unidentified drones. Even more alarming was the weapons cache uncovered, which included not only explosives and firearms but anti-tank “long spike” missiles—a heavy weapon smuggled silently into Iran’s interior, indicating the spy networks are far from disorganized mobs.
These groups are well-equipped, organized, and possibly possess independent firepower and logistical support, their infiltration so deep it shakes the foundations of Iran’s national security.
While 700 arrests suggest some success, the reality is sobering: a nation uncovering over 700 spies reveals the profound extent of the infiltration.
Western intelligence sources estimate that at least 1,300 people within Iran work for Mossad, meaning that despite harsh crackdowns, nearly half may have escaped or gone deeper underground.
More worryingly, Iran’s public arrest operations have not reported seizing any “Starlink” or other advanced satellite communication devices.
Those “big fish,” capable of linking the entire network and communicating directly overseas, have likely sensed the danger and vanished early, leaving behind only expendable pawns. The true core network may now be in “hibernation,” awaiting reactivation.
While tentative ceasefire talks may soon dry up on paper, the age-old lands of the Middle East remain far from peace, still locked in an ongoing war of nuclear ambitions, assassinations, and betrayals.
Sources referenced:
Observer Network “Iran’s Supreme Leader Advisor Personally Reveals How He Survived Israeli Assassination”
The Paper “Iran Holds State Funeral for Over 60 Senior Commanders and Scientists”
China Reports “Israeli Military Claims Killing Iran’s Top Military Commander Ali Shadmani”
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