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Operation Rising Lion - Attack On Iran - Ep 6. Rising Lion

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Dr. Ahmad Tehrani dies after helping target the very facility where he worked for 15 years.

1. Murder Weekly - Crime, Espionage, and Murder Thrillers presents Operation Rising Lion as a 63-hour covert war over Iran and Israel. 2. Marcus Cole, the narrator and operations coordinator, frames himself from a control center beneath Tel Aviv, while Dr. Ahmad Tehrani, Colonel Darius Karimi, Captain Reza Amiri, and David Mizrahi are the named intelligence assets whose work shaped the strikes. 3. The episode asks what a successful intelligence operation costs when every person who made it possible is also consumed by it. 4. Wave 1 hit Iranian air defense systems, including radar installations, surface-to-air missile batteries, and command centers, and the narration says air defenses were degraded by 73% within the first hour. 5. The Tehran Air Defense Coordination Center is identified as one of the first destroyed facilities, and Captain Amiri is tied to that location through his role in coordinating defensive responses. 6. Wave 2 targeted missile production and storage sites, including the Shahid Baqeri Air Base and the Parchin Military Industrial Complex. 7. The episode says the Parchin site reached underground laboratories buried 40 meters below ground, and American bunker-busting bombs were used against those facilities. 8. Waves 3 through 7 focused on Natanz, Isfahan, and Bushehr, which are presented as core nodes in Iran’s nuclear capability. 9. Marcus notes that these strikes were planned to minimize radioactive contamination while eliminating the nuclear program’s operational capacity. 10. Wave 8 through Wave 12 moved from infrastructure to leadership, including the intelligence headquarters, Revolutionary Guard command centers, and residential compounds. 11. The reporting says Iranian retaliation began at 1147 hours on Friday, with missiles hitting Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. 12. Civilian damage is specified as seven dead in a Tel Aviv apartment building collapse, dozens of injured medical personnel in Haifa, and fragments damaging the Knesset building in Jerusalem. 13. The episode’s first major surprise is that the operation’s intelligence network was destroyed by the very strikes it enabled, including the deaths of Tehrani, Karimi, Amiri, and Mizrahi. 14. Marcus emphasizes the phrase “the mathematics of modern intelligence warfare” and says networks are built to accomplish objectives that make their own existence unnecessary. 15. The second major turn comes when recovered files show Tehrani’s research notes on medical isotope production and cancer treatment protocols. 16. Another file shows Amiri’s investigation report recommending security protocols to protect Iranian nuclear scientists from foreign assassination. 17. A third recovered assessment says Mizrahi’s Tehran business operations supported 17 Iranian families through legitimate import-export work. 18. The tone is grim, reflective, and methodical, with Marcus reading archive-style assessments, casualty counts, and private messages in a report-like format. 19. Listeners who like espionage operations, nuclear strategy, and moral ambiguity will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners who want straightforward hero-versus-villain storytelling may skip it.

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A fast geopolitical thriller where every victory comes with a price.

Operation Rising Lion treats a military strike like a running tab of damage. Across 63 hours of escalation, starting at exactly 0-100 hours Tehran time on Friday, June 13, 2025, when the first Israeli F-35 crossed into Iranian airspace, it tracks who gets pulled under: a nuclear…

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