Israel obviously through Azerbaycan has an excellent network in Iran to target high value targets. Why cant we use the same network? I mean high ranking PKK commanders enjoy a safe heaven in Iran which they shouldn't.
I was thinking of writing a long answer, but decided to keep it short.
I am confident that Israel uses KDP-I and allies networks in Iran instead of Azerbaijani and Azerbaijan is not the preferred option when it comes to the enabling of MOSSAD operations in Iran.
The KDP-I already has deep roots in Iran and controls smuggling routes between Iran and Iraq. Another factor is that Israel is working in Iran for decades, establishing its intelligence network while we slept all this time and currently can only cry because "we gave the addresses to our Iranian brothers, but they told us that there's nobody there". Israel also chooses its targets carefully and doesn't fear retaliation. They don't even try to hide while there is no chance for us to conduct a military operation inside Iran of such importance and claim it.
We already have an informant network inside PKK, but we need more in order to enable such an operation. If we take for a fact that Cemil Bayik is based in Urmiya, Iran (1.000.000.000 population, Turkic and Kurdish ethnicities), we would need a very serious agent and informant network which would be able to track Cemil Bayik who is most probably traveling under false identity and Iranian Intelligence protection. We are talking about SIGINT, HUMINT, special reconnaissance, surveillance, cyber teams and hit teams which are positioned and ready in their areas of responsibility. I am sure that we already know the rumors, but such an operation needs to be based on accurate and timely intelligence due to the fact that these men (PKK leaders) may surface for a short breath and they are back underground. We must be ready to respond to the intelligence timely with a ready to act hit team. We are talking about an operation that may last months or even years and in this period of time we must ensure that our local agents and informants stay motivated and loyal to us and the secrecy of our operation stays as it is.
Many people think that to operate in Iran is very easy, but it is not, especially for us. We need to work consistently for decades in order to match the level of the Israeli networks in Iran and the objectives of these networks is very different. While Israel is using so much resource in Iran in order to ensure their very existence, we would operate in Iran in order to hunt terrorists that are in a decline.
Most importantly is not if we are able to do it (I am sure that with consistent work we are able to do it), but if the political and military leadership is ready to bear the consequences, because as we said before, we lack the deterrence. Iran will not attack Turkiye, but our foreign bases are in a great danger. We should be ready for the worst case scenario.
I don't want to discourage anyone, but if the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (not the Iranian State) decides they can nullify the result of 10 years of work, hundreds of martyrs in the mountains of Iraq and inflict damages equal to hundreds of martyrs, millions in terms of equipment and can end our existence in Iraq in around a month of intense attacks. It is a hard to swallow fact that we just don't have the capability to react to this threat appropriately.
