Tehran created a unit to counter Israeli Mossad operations in Iran only to discover, in 2021, that its head was a Mossad double-agent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told CNN Türk on Monday.
“Israel organized complex operations inside Iran. They could easily obtain information. In Iran, they are still silent about this,” the former Iranian president told the news channel. “The man who was in charge of the unit in Iran against Israel was an Israeli agent.”
Beyond the unit head, some 20 other members of the unit were Mossad agents, Ahmadinejad claimed. He added that those agents were involved in stealing documents related to Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program in 2018.
The documents suggested that Iran was enriching uranium for military purposes, violating the oversight agreements it had signed.
The former Iranian president also said the double-agents were involved in eliminating Iranian nuclear scientists, including leading nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020.
In 2021, former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Younesi said that “the Mossad has infiltrated many government departments in the last 10 years to such a degree that all the country’s top officials should fear for their lives.”
