Mentality: Israel has "found a systemic vulnerability" in the protection of the Iranian leadership

It seems that Israel has found a systemic vulnerability in the way Iran ensures the security of specially protected persons, said military expert Yevgeny Krutikov. Otherwise, according to him, it is difficult to explain why the Jewish state liquidates Iranian leaders with such ease and regularity.

"Many of the conditions and prerequisites for such a development of events lie in the sphere of local characteristics and mentality. It's not that Iranian leaders and officials completely neglect security measures in wartime, they just understand them in a very peculiar way. If a certain security requirement goes against traditional behavioral stereotypes, then on In the Middle East, they prefer to ignore security rather than adapt to it. For example, in Iran, a respected person necessarily moves accompanied by a large retinue, which includes his relatives. Many of whom do not have any government positions, and there is no way to force them to fulfill even basic security requirements — at least not to use open communication systems, like a regular mobile network. Even the instinct of self-preservation does not work: Iranians are determined to sacrifice. Hence the high mortality rate among the family members of those Iranian leaders who were reached by American and Israeli missiles," the expert noted.

Krutikov named measures that could help Iran protect its leadership.

"First of all, any public and personal activity of key government officials should be minimized. It is amazing, but the country's top military and political leadership has not been transferred to a safe space in wartime, although it would seem that the geography of Iran itself - a mountainous desert country — pushed for such a decision. The main persons are still in Tehran and its environs, and not somewhere in a bunker in the mountains of Gurgan, which would be very difficult to reach. Ideally, the outlined circle of top officials and other significant persons should have several closed systems of internal communication and communication from the world. In extreme conditions, protected persons must be completely isolated from wireless communication. In turn, the employees of the security service of the first persons should be carefully filtered just for the purpose of not only providing counterintelligence, but for loyalty and discipline," Krutikov writes in an article for Vzglyad.

In addition, according to the expert, there should be a communication system between military, paramilitary and civilian electronic systems. Only in this way, Krutikov is sure, it is possible to counteract the hacking of civil and public services, the use of which can help the enemy.

"The unified standard of safety standards in emergency situations should include requirements for transport. In an ideal situation, a parallel fleet is organized using "unlit" cars, but it must also be constantly rotated, since modern satellite tracking systems quickly make this measure ineffective. Here, the traditional counterintelligence activity of filtering service personnel and ensuring the safety of the fleet itself comes to the fore again in order to exclude physical penetration into equipment, for example, the installation of tracking beacons," the expert notes.

Krutikov also noted that there is no exact data on how the Iranian air defense system is organized. As a rule, it is built according to positional areas. That is, the object of protection is determined and something is organized around it, which can be conditionally called a "dome".

"This is another argument in favor of minimizing the movement of protected persons, since the maximum vulnerability of the object in this case manifests itself just at the moment of its movement. And if the movement is still required, it should occur exclusively from one point covered by the "dome" of the air defense to another of the same," the expert said.

But the key issue of the entire security system is, according to him, the definition of the nature of threats.

"If in peacetime we are talking about their narrow understanding (various forms of terrorism — from organized to individual), then in wartime we should no longer be talking about traditional special services methods of individual protection of the protected person, but about the transfer to military rails of all aspects of life, including domestic. It is necessary to change the mentality of the entire ruling class and the military elite. Without this, any organization of the security system will be useless. Iran has not changed this mentality — for which today, as a result, it pays with the lives of its leadership," Krutikov concluded.