New details were revealed this evening (Thursday) about the espionage affair involving two technicians at the Tel Nof Air Force base.
According to a report by Doron Kadosh, the military correspondent for Galei Tzahal, the Iranian agents did not hesitate to set a high bar of demands, culminating in the request from one of the soldiers to assassinate the commander of the Air Force, Major General Tomer Bar.
According to the information, the soldier did not reject the offer out of hand and replied to his operator that he would "look into it and try.".
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The list of targets the Iranians forwarded was extensive and included requests for photographs of the streets where senior state and defense officials live: Prime Minister Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and former Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
The operators also showed special interest in the meat of Bezalel Smotrich, and demanded documentation of Rothschild and Kaplan streets in Tel Aviv.
On the military level, the soldiers were asked to provide maps of Iron Dome batteries, air defense systems, photographs of bases, and the location of the residences of senior pilots.
The relationship between the soldiers and their operators lasted for about a year, during which many conversations took place.
Surprisingly, at the beginning, when the soldier was asked by the operator: "What monthly salary will satisfy you?", he was satisfied with a demand for only $1,300.
Throughout the period, the soldier passed on classified information at the "protected" level about fighter jet systems from a technician course, but the Iranian agent dismissed the importance of the information and demanded "more serious and important" missions. Later, the soldier photographed a control tower, runways, and drones, but did not receive any financial compensation for this.
The soldier's attempts to prove his loyalty included photographing a fighter jet at the base, but the Iranians continued to taunt him, claiming that this was "not enough" and demanding documentation of the takeoff.
In preparation for Operation 'Am Kalavi', a soldier was even offered a bribe of hundreds of dollars to deliberately delay the release of aircraft for operational activity - a task he refused.
Ultimately, after the soldier refused to carry out an armed attack, the Iranians severed contact.
In a puzzling turn of events, the soldier continued to try to renew contact and even looked for other Iranian agents on social media, but Iranian intelligence, which suspected he was a double agent, chose not to respond to him.
