On Monday, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen during a speech at a security conference in Herzliyah, Israel, disclosed a range of activities his organization undertook over the past few years and which have saved countless lives across the globe.
In a James Bond movie one person saves the world, Cohen said adding that in our world “many (Mossad) operatives” do this.
The Mossad director claimed that his agents found out that Iran had been plotting to carry out terror attacks in The Netherlands, Germany, Turkey and France while training 300 operatives in Syria who were supposed to export the Islamic Revolution to Africa.
Cohen also revealed that Iran last year paid $100 million to the Palestinian terror groups in Gaza in order to get them upping the pressure on Israel by means of the so-called ‘Great Match of Return’, the organized violence along the Israeli border with Gaza.
The Mossad has also delivered the intelligence that thwarted terror attacks against civilian planes around the world and saved the lives of Jews everywhere.
Cohen pointed to Iran’s determination to expand its ballistic missile program and said this was another indication the Islamic Republic has not abandoned its nuclear weapons program.
His words got more significance after Mojtaba Zonnour, the former chairman of Iran’s Nuclear Subcommittee and current chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament, threatened to destroy Israel within half an hour in case the United States would attack Iran.
“If America attacks us, Israel will survive for less than half an hour,” Zonnour bragged.
The high-ranking Iranian official also claimed that all 36 American bases in the Middle East are under Iran’s ‘surveillance’ and within reach of its ballistic missiles.
Zonnour’s statement raises again the question if Iran isn’t in the possession of nuclear weapons already.
Former CIA spy Reza Khalili (not his real name), who delivered intelligence to the US while being a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, claimed in October 2011 that Iran already has nuclear weapons.
According to Khalili Iran purchased tactical nuclear weapons from former Soviet-Union republic Kazakhstan.
Khalili cited Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, an experienced intelligence officer and recipient of a Bronze Star, who told the CIA spy that his sources had reported to him Iran had two workable nuclear warheads in 2011.
Earlier, in April 2006, the Russian journal Novaia Gazeta, disclosed that a shocking 250 nuclear warheads from the Ukrainian nuclear arsenal were missing after the collapse of the Soviet-Union.
The Russian magazine suggested that the missing nuclear warheads could have ended up in Iran.
Another possibility is that Iran has transferred a part of its nuclear weapons program to a third country most likely Syria.
In 2015 the German magazine Der Spiegel claimed that Iran had built a new nuclear facility in the west Syrian town of Qusayr close to the Lebanese border.
Der Spiegel claimed that 8,000 fuel rods were stored at the site but American weapon expert Jennifer Dyer thought Qusayr could also be a plutonium facility.
The Washington-based Institute For Science And International Security (ISIS) in March 2018 published a report which also dealt with Qusayr.
The report stated that while “evidence remains inconclusive” there is reason to believe that Syria, apparently with help from North Korea and Iran, built a new underground nuclear facility in Qusayr.
The ISIS investigators, among them former IAEA nuclear inspector David Albright, reviewed satellite images of Qusayr and noted that the site was located close to an underground aquifer which could be used for the cooling of a nuclear reactor.
They also observed that efforts had been made to camouflage large amounts of excavated limestone earth which had been covered with brown earth on a nearby terraced hill.
Earlier intercepted radio traffic between a high-ranking Hezbollah operative and Ibrahim Othman, the head of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission, furthermore revealed that Qusayr was indeed a nuclear site.
The Hezbollah commander referred to Qusayr as “the atomic factory” while officers of the Free Syrian Army who fought against Assad’s army in the Qusayr region reported that Iranians were guarding “the nuclear site.”
As for Cohen’s remarkable speech at IDC in Herzliyah the Mossad chief indicated that more information on the exact nature of Iran’s nuclear program could be released in the near future.
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