#IsraelIranConflict After the Israeli strike, Iran delayed its response. There was also a widespread communication blackout in Iran. Combined with the fact that the Israeli strike was aimed at the top military command of Iran, which could not have been carried out without betrayal at the top of Iran, there may have been an attempt at a coup.

This is also indirectly confirmed by the panic in Israel. It seems they did not expect a retaliatory strike to be possible. And it can only be impossible in the case of a coup in Iran.