The Daily Populous Tuesday October 1st, 2024 morning edition
Authored by nysun.com and submitted by IBVn

After weeks of daring Israeli attacks on Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Gaza — and even in Iran itself — comments made recently by the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the effect that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency managed to infiltrate even the top echelons of Iran’s intelligence services are drawing increased scrutiny.

Mr. Ahmadinejad says an intelligence group tasked primarily with spying on Israel was all-but taken over by Mossad, which managed to recruit the head of the Iranian group — as well as most of his lieutenants — as a double agent. The goal of the Mossad operation, according to Mr. Ahmadinejad, was to steal information about Iran’s nuclear program.

Mr. Ahmadinejad — who was barred from running in this year’s special presidential election following the death of President Raisi in a helicopter crash — made the claims during a recent interview with CNN Türk, CNN’s Istanbul-based, Turkish-language affiliate.

Mr. Ahmadinejad told the outlet that “the highest person in charge of the counter-Israel unit at the Iranian Intelligence Ministry was an Israeli agent,” according to a translation of the CNN Türk report. The former president claims that Mossad infiltrated the intelligence services in order to conduct “complex operations,” including stealing “crucial nuclear documents.”

He says that nearly two dozen Iranians were a part of the Mossad operation, according to a report in Turkiyetoday, which reports that Mr. Ahmadinejad made the comments shortly after his plan to run again for the top office was rejected.

It would not be the first time Israel has operated within Iran’s borders to obtain classified information about the country’s nuclear development program. In 2018, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that his country had obtained a trove of files related to Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon. He later delivered a presentation of those documents from a stage at Tel Aviv.

In a daring operation six years ago, Mossad agents infiltrated a warehouse at Tehran in the middle of the night and stole more than 100,000 documents detailing Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, according to the New York Times. Over the course of just six hours, more than two dozen agents cut through safes inside the warehouse to access the documents, which were later verified as authentic by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mr. Netanyahu conducted a private briefing for President Trump after the documents were in his possession, which then motivated the American president to pull out of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.

SharticusMaximus on September 30th, 2024 at 19:30 UTC »

You mean no one suspected Mohammed Goldstein?

Thebananabender on September 30th, 2024 at 19:29 UTC »

A Mossad agent was almost appointed the minister of defense of Syria. (Eli Cohen)

I wouldn’t be surprised if many people in Iran are Israeli agent , especially when considering the fact there are 150K Persian Jews living in Israel that know the language and culture of Iran and they hold grudge to the regime for expelling them…

halfsweethalfstreet on September 30th, 2024 at 19:18 UTC »

Sounds like the time the FBI put a Russian spy in charge of the unit dedicated to finding the Russian spy in its ranks.