Plumes of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil facility late Saturday linger and merge with the cloudy sky over Tehran, Iran, Sunday. Vahid Salemi/AP
Vahid Salemi/AP
TEL AVIV, Israel — In the nighttime hours before launching the Iran war, Israeli military generals made sure their cars were not in their usual parking spots at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, in case Iranian spotters were looking for clues that war was near.
In the days before the war, U.S. warplanes were deliberately parked in southern Israel to distract Iran — which was perhaps keeping a close eye with Chinese