Iranian Mossad agent details role in internal attacks on regime during 12-day war |
An Iranian Mossad agent, who was among those on the ground in Iran carrying out preemptive attacks as Israel launched strikes to destroy Iranian nuclear sites last year, described his actions and how he came to work for the spy agency in an interview with Israeli television.
The man, whose name was kept secret, spoke to Channel 12’s investigative show “Uvda” for a report aired Thursday evening.
He spoke of his motivation in volunteering to become a Mossad agent, visits to Israel, and what happened on June 13, 2025, when Israel hit out at what it said was an immediate, existential threat posed by Iran’s nuclear development program.
In the early hours of June 13, as Israeli warplanes were sent to strike Iran, a wave of rocket and drone attacks, launched from within Iran, destroyed key air defense systems, ballistic missile launchers, and targeted senior Iranian military figures, as well as nuclear scientists.
The attacks paved the way for the airstrikes that followed, and hampered Iran’s ability to immediately launch a missile and drone counterattack, though those would come in the following days.
The agent, identified in the show by the alias “Arash,” was heavily disguised to prevent any possibility of being recognized. Uvda did not specify where the interview was held, saying only that it was filmed before the recent internal anti-regime protests in Iran starting in late December.
Arash, who Uvda reported is around 40-years-old, said he first became uncomfortable with the Iranian regime when he started school and was immediately indoctrinated with hatred for Israel and the US. One night, when he was 11, his seventeen-year-old sister was arrested and beaten for not wearing a hijab. His father paid for her release, but the incident was enough to make the family leave Iran for an unidentified Western country.
But Arash was left with a deep desire, he said, to act against the regime in Iran and help his friends who were still there. When he was 30, on a whim, he looked up the Mossad on Google and found the agency’s website. He sent them a message, unsure what would happen, but within days, he was contacted by an agent. In 2015, he began........