Wow. I mean, if you ever doubted the capabilities of Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, this latest revelation from former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should make your jaw drop.
It’s like something straight out of a spy thriller that even Hollywood might find too far-fetched. Yet, here we are: Mossad not only infiltrated Iran’s intelligence unit tasked with targeting them, but the head of that very unit turned out to be an Israeli agent himself. You can’t make this stuff up.
Think about this for a second: Iran, with all its chest-thumping rhetoric and obsession with wiping Israel off the map, got completely duped by their own counterintelligence team. The people who were supposed to be hunting down Mossad agents ended up working for Mossad. Ahmadinejad claims it wasn’t just one rogue agent either—it was 20 of them.
They weren’t just sitting around gathering basic intel either; these agents were responsible for some of Israel’s most significant intelligence victories, including the 2018 heist of Iran’s nuclear documents that Prime Minister Netanyahu proudly displayed to the world.
That 2018 operation? It wasn’t just a feather in Mossad’s cap—it played a pivotal role in convincing then-President Donald Trump to pull the U.S. out of the nuclear deal with Iran. The sheer level of espionage and subterfuge at play here is staggering. The fact that these agents were able to steal critical nuclear documents, assassinate nuclear scientists, and then flee to Israel unscathed, all while being embedded in Iran’s intelligence apparatus, is mind-blowing.
Ahmadinejad’s comments make it even more surreal. This is a man who made his entire political career on anti-Israel rhetoric, and now he’s admitting, in essence, that Israel ran circles around his country’s most elite security services. The embarrassment for Tehran must be unbearable. The head of their anti-Mossad unit was, in fact, Mossad himself. And yet, somehow, Ahmadinejad’s tone is almost matter-of-fact about the whole thing.
You would think it is a joke, but it isn’t
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with @cnnturk said that Iran’s secret services had created a special unit to combat Mossad operating in Iran. However, turns out the head of this unit was himself a Mossad… pic.twitter.com/35fKhqEeTt
— Michael Elgort (@just_whatever) September 30, 2024
But while this spy story is almost laughably absurd, the broader context isn’t funny at all. Iran just launched a missile barrage at Israel, escalating tensions to a whole new level. With Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana’s chilling response to Ayatollah Khamenei—”Say hello to the end”—the situation is spiraling fast. If I were the Ayatollah, I wouldn’t be sleeping soundly for a while, considering what we now know about Mossad’s reach.
If this was a plot twist on a TV show people would be like, “Come on, writers, way too far-fetched”
— Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@CathyYoung63) September 30, 2024
It’s clear that if you’re on Israel’s enemies list these days, you’ve got every reason to be paranoid. Whether you’re a Hezbollah leader, a Hamas operative, or part of Iran’s intelligence, it seems your days are numbered. Iran might want to rethink its approach because, at this point, Mossad appears to be playing 4D chess while Tehran is still trying to figure out checkers.
