In a revelation that merges irony with unintended consequence, Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, has publicly acknowledged he was injured by an Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah’s covert communications infrastructure—yet insists he wasn’t the intended recipient of the high-tech payload. The incident occurred during a dramatic Israeli intelligence strike last year that remotely detonated thousands of encrypted pagers and secure communications devices smuggled into Lebanon by Hezbollah.
Amani, speaking in a rare televised interview with Lebanon’s Al-Jadeed TV, downplayed his connection to the now-exploded device, claiming it was stationed within his office for “emergency preparedness.” According to the ambassador, the pager was intended to maintain secure lines of communication in the event of blackout scenarios—power failures or cyber disruptions—especially in the tense weeks following Israel’s April 2024 precision strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus.
🚨 Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Moshtaba Amani, who was injured in the Mossad pager attack: "There were those who criticized the fact that a diplomat had such a device, but it was not on me, but in the office at the embassy and was kept for special situations. After the attack…
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While Amani painted the device as a benign contingency tool, Israeli defense officials have categorically stated that the targeted devices were part of a Hezbollah shipment used for battlefield coordination, encrypted messaging, and militant logistics. The devices were reportedly implanted with tiny remote-detonation triggers by Israeli cyber warfare units, showcasing Tel Aviv’s expanding arsenal in electronic warfare and psychological disruption.
The Iranian ambassador on why he was carrying a pager… How stupid does he think we are? pic.twitter.com/BNmsnGTSf8
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Amani, seemingly brushing off the implications of hosting Hezbollah hardware in an Iranian diplomatic facility, condemned Israel’s actions with theatrical flourish. “The Zionist enemy’s crime of detonating pagers in Lebanon did not distinguish between the young and the old,” he declared, casting himself as collateral damage in what was, by most accounts, a surgical operation against terrorist infrastructure.
🇮🇷 | 🇱🇧 Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, stated in an interview that Iran respects Lebanese decisions regarding Hezbollah's arms and does not impose its views on Lebanon's political landscape. He addressed the recent incident involving a “beeper” explosion,… pic.twitter.com/m32cejkXcN
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Israeli military intelligence has remained tight-lipped about the full extent of the operation but noted that no civilian-use devices were affected, and only Hezbollah-linked communication equipment was targeted. Analysts say the strike was as much a technological demonstration as it was a message: no device used to coordinate terror is safe—even on foreign soil, even inside an embassy.
