HEAD OF IRANIAN UNIT COUNTERING MOSSAD WAS ISRAELI AGENT, SAYS EX-PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD

Wed 02 October 2024:

The head of an Iranian counter-intelligence unit tasked with identifying and weeding out undercover Israeli agents was himself a Mossad operative, a former Iranian president has revealed.

Speaking to CNN Turk, former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, revealed that the head of a counter-intelligence unit specially assigned to target Mossad agents was himself exposed as a double agent back in 2021, with a further 20 agents in that team also having operated for Israeli intelligence.

Former Islamic Republic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad previously told CNN Turkey that they had established a special unit to combat Mossad within Iran but it turned out that the head of the unit was actually working for Mossad.

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According to Ahmadinejad, those double agents were behind a series of intelligence leaks and failures on the part of Iran over the years, providing Israel with sensitive information on matters, such as the Iranian nuclear program.

One such operation was the theft of documents on the nuclear program that were taken from Iran to Israel back in 2018, and which were revealed by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, leading to then-US president Donald Trump pulling out of the Iranian nuclear agreement that year.

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The head of the counterintelligence unit was revealed as a double agent in 2021 but he and all of the other alleged Mossad moles were able to flee the country and are now living in Israel, claimed Ahmadinejad, a firebrand populist known for his hardline anti-Israel rhetoric. He was prevented from running again for president earlier this year.

The revelation comes at a time when Iranian authorities – as well as their proxies across the region – are reeling from a series of crises that have exposed significant gaps in the country’s security and intelligence apparatus, with reports increasingly showing the depths of Israel’s penetration.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said that Iranian counterintelligence set up a special unit to combat Mossad infiltration. But the head of that secret unit was a Mossad agent who had 20 other Israeli agents working with him. pic.twitter.com/eOUzXvLy8r

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French newspaper Le Parisien, citing a Lebanese source, reported Saturday that Israel was tipped off about Nasrallah’s presence by an Iranian mole.

Immediately after news broke of Nasrallah’s death, the Iranians rushed their Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to a secure location.

Other Iranian officials have in the past remarked about Mossad’s penetration in Iran. A former Iranian minister who served as an adviser to former president Hassan Rouhani said in 2022 that senior officials in Tehran should be fearing for their lives due to the “infiltration” of Israel’s spy agency, according to the London-based Persian-language Manoto news site.

Assassination of Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh

In July, the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by an explosion at the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying during a visit to attend the funeral of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Although Israel has not commented on Haniyeh’s death, Iran has vowed to retaliate.

An unverified image of the Tehran building where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed on July 31, 2024. (Social media)

Days after Haniyeh’s death, Iran arrested at least two dozen people for suspected connection to the assassination, The New York Times reported at the time, citing two Iranians familiar with the investigation.

Those arrested included senior Iranian intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-run guesthouse, the report said. Iranians feared a major security breach among high-ranking officials made the daring assassination possible.