TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard carried out a large-scale intelligence operation in eight cities and border towns of the Sistan-Baluchestan province, targeting a secret network operated by Indian intelligence under Mossad’s direction.
The crackdown led to the arrest of 312 operatives, most of whom were affiliated with BLA, BLF, and their political wing, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC). Since many of the detainees held Pakistani identity documents, Tehran kept the arrests confidential for diplomatic reasons.
This covert operation was revealed when Iran’s signal intelligence intercepted encrypted data from an Israeli-made BlueBird Zahal-X drone near Chabahar, marking the first clue of a foreign spy network.
Further investigation by Iranian financial intelligence traced suspicious fund transfers: around $700,000 from a Dubai-registered firm, Horizon Commodities FZE, to a shell company named Baloch Brothers Trading in Quetta, confirming the covert activities.
The network operated like an intricate web starting in Karachi and stretching deep into Iran, eventually linking back to New Delhi and Tel Aviv.
It began with India’s RAW Node-K7 in Karachi, where agents were recruited through human trafficking channels or covert couriers.
They were then sent to Iran using fake “Ziyarat visas” to legally cross the border undetected. In Iran’s Sistan province, recruits were trained by BYC’s ideological study circles, which masked the intelligence agenda of Mossad and RAW.
From there, real-time instructions were issued by Mossad’s Unit-8200 Forward base in Cyprus, involving surveillance, intelligence collection, and propaganda on social media.
The collected intelligence was transmitted back to Tel Aviv using satellite channels such as BlueBird drones or Thuraya XT-Pro to avoid ground network detection.
The operation was financed through Dubai-based shell companies and crypto wallets, funnelling funds to operatives in Quetta, Karachi, and New Delhi. This exposed the operation as not just ideological, but a sophisticated tech-finance-intelligence alliance.
Once the seized materials reached Iranian forensic labs, investigators discovered compelling evidence.
A PowerPoint file titled “Project Gidon-Esha” was retrieved from a laptop, containing detailed slides on AIS and RF signal monitoring at Gwadar Port and the Taftan border—evidence of organized surveillance and targeting.
Ballistic analysis of confiscated C4 explosives showed a chemical signature matching Israel’s PETN-75 series, confirming the use of Israeli military-grade materials.
Furthermore, a transaction traced on Binance (ID: 1BLA-M25-X122) linked to a server registered under the name “Sanders” in Israel further validated the international reach of the network.
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These findings collectively confirmed the existence of a highly organized, financially supported, and technologically advanced spy operation acting as a proxy for foreign intelligence rather than a local insurgency.
