Tag: Mossad
Netanyahu: Iranian threat cannot be contained, endangers Zionist enterprise
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the Iranian threat could not be contained, and that Israel would risk friction with the United States to eliminate it.
Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony for...
Netanyahu names new head of Mossad intelligence agency
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that David Barnea has been selected to serve as the next director of the Mossad intelligence agency, following outgoing head Yossi Cohen.
Barnea, 56 and a father...
America’s Middle East allies unite against Iran, see start of talks as ‘betrayal’
The renewal of indirect talks last week between the United States and Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—appears to have escalated tensions in the Middle East, as...
1,800 former Israeli generals, service members urge Biden not to return to JCPOA
A group of 1,800 retired Israeli generals, officers and Mossad operatives have written a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden urging him not to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
In the March...
How does Israel negotiate prisoner exchanges?
The return home last week of an Israeli woman who had crossed the border into Syria has brought prisoner exchanges back to the headlines. How does Israel contact parties that are holding its citizens? What are...
Who killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh?
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is dead. That much seems to be true. But how—and more importantly, why—the Iranian nuclear scientist died is a mystery, despite the venerable London-based Jewish Chronicle publishing a “world exclusive” headlined, “Truth Behind killing of...
Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad director as spy agency’s next chief
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced his selection of the next head of the country’s Mossad intelligence agency, a deputy chief of the agency referred to only as “D.”
The nomination is pending...
Banner over busy Tehran street reads: ‘Thank you, Mossad’
In what can only be considered a remarkable sight, a banner thanking the Israeli spy agency Mossad—with an Israeli flag draped over it—was seen on a pedestrian bridge over a busy thoroughfare in the...
Report: Israeli agents assassinated Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 in Iran
Israeli operatives shot Al-Qaeda’s second in command on the streets of Tehran on behalf of the United States, intelligence officials told The New York Times in a report published on Friday.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by...
Iran announces execution of ‘spy’ for CIA, Mossad
The Islamic Republic executed a man on Monday for espionage on behalf of American and Israeli intelligence, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported.
According to the report, the Iranian judiciary announced that Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd had provided the...