Former Mossad chief David “Dadi” Barnea has disclosed that Israeli agents nonetheless function in Iran, emphasising that almost all of them had by no means been uncovered.
Barnea made the revelation on the Priority Summit convention, the place he spoke on Operation Rising Lion in 2025, Israel’s marketing campaign in opposition to Iranian nuclear and army targets.
He recalled Mossad intentionally launched a video displaying its actions inside Iran to confuse the safety companies and make it tougher to establish actual Israeli operatives.
Barnea personally authorised each agent deployed for the duty to make sure their reliability and talent to keep up secrecy: “You have to sign off that this secret won’t leak.”
The ex-chief mentioned whereas dozens of operatives had been deployed inside Iran weeks earlier than the operation, Israeli pilots didn’t know they had been going to assault once they had been referred to as to their squadrons.
Barnea insisted that a few of these arrested or executed in Iran on spy allegations had been by no means related to the Mossad, including that agents who participated in the mission remain in Iran.
“They’re there in Tehran, still living their good lives, knowing in their hearts that they served a noble purpose,” Ynet News quoted him as saying.
The intelligence officer additionally commented on the September 2024 operation, which resulted in the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of pagers utilized by members of Hezbollah.
