Iran recruiting Israeli citizens to spy against their government, with social media the key to luring them in
5 months ago

Iran recruiting Israeli citizens to spy against their government, with social media the key to luring them in

ABC  

Israeli spy agency Mossad may be renowned globally for its shadowy missions carried out in the name of the state. "Iran is looking for every angle that it can find," Dr Yoel Guzansky, senior fellow at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies said. 30-year-old Vladislav Victorson and his 18-year-old model girlfriend Anna Bernstein had been arrested in Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, accused of working for an enemy of the Israeli state. In September, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it had busted open an Israeli spy ring operating across the country, arresting 12 people. In 2021, an Israeli man working in Defense Minister Benny Gantz's residence was arrested and charged over trying to help Iranian operatives gain access to his boss' ministerial computer.

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Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran

CNN  

Haifa, Israel CNN — In the months before Iranian ballistic missiles struck the Nevatim Airbase in October, Iran dispatched spies to film and photograph the site in southern Israel, according to Israeli authorities. Nisanov’s attorney Maher Talhami did not deny that Nisanov photographed Israeli military bases, but told CNN that Nisanov “didn’t know that he was dealing with the Iranians.” …

Israeli Security Agency foils Iranian plot to assassinate scientist and mayor
5 months ago

Israeli Security Agency foils Iranian plot to assassinate scientist and mayor

Live Mint  

Israeli security officials foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate scientist and mayor. Seven Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem were arrested in this regard. The main suspect is identified as a 23-year-old Israeli national who came into contact with an Iranian agent and asked to carry out various tasks. After beginning his activity, he recruited a team to help him carry …

Israeli Spy Network Aimed at Military and Energy Infrastructure in Haifa, Northern Israel
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5 months, 1 week ago

Israeli Spy Network Aimed at Military and Energy Infrastructure in Haifa, Northern Israel

News 18  

Israeli police have arrested a spy network of seven Israelis for gathering information on Israel's military bases and energy infrastructure for Iranian intelligence. The network conducted extensive reconnaissance missions on IDF bases nationwide, focusing on air force and navy installations, ports, Iron Dome system locations, and energy infrastructure such as the Hadera power plant.

Israeli Spy Ring: 7 Individuals Accused of Gathering Intelligence for Iran
5 months, 1 week ago

Israeli Spy Ring: 7 Individuals Accused of Gathering Intelligence for Iran

Firstpost  

Seven Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of espionage for Iran, allegedly completing hundreds of tasks for Tehran. The suspects, all Jewish residents of Haifa and northern Israel, include a soldier who deserted and two minors. The suspects completed some 600 missions for Iran, including gathering intelligence on sensitive military and infrastructure sites and identifying potential human targets for Iran.

At least six people killed in suspected terror attack in Tel Aviv, say Israeli police
5 months, 3 weeks ago

At least six people killed in suspected terror attack in Tel Aviv, say Israeli police

The Independent  

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Iranian moles and 2000lb bunker busters: How Israel pulled off the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah as he hid in Hezbollah's lair 60ft below the surface of Beirut
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Iranian moles and 2000lb bunker busters: How Israel pulled off the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah as he hid in Hezbollah's lair 60ft below the surface of Beirut

Daily Mail  

Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with US-made bunker-busting bombs on Friday came as the result of a critical intelligence breach amid decades of infiltration of Iranian and Lebanese militant command structures, it is claimed. Nasrallah died in a brutal assault that saw Israeli F-15I fighter jets drop dozens of munitions on the Hezbollah HQ in Beirut The site …

Israeli pensioner arrested over Iran-backed plot to assassinate Netanyahu, security service says
6 months, 1 week ago

Israeli pensioner arrested over Iran-backed plot to assassinate Netanyahu, security service says

The Independent  

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Israeli citizen arrested over Netanyahu 'assassination plot' from Iran
6 months, 1 week ago

Israeli citizen arrested over Netanyahu 'assassination plot' from Iran

Daily Mail  

An Israeli citizen was arrested after allegedly accepting money from Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it has been revealed. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar announced today that Tehran was behind a plot to kill senior officials in Israel following the assassination of Hamas' political chief Ismail Haniyeh in late July. Iran allegedly …

Iranian spies tasked Israeli citizen with delivering severed animal head, Shin Bet says
8 months, 1 week ago

Iranian spies tasked Israeli citizen with delivering severed animal head, Shin Bet says

CNN  

Jerusalem CNN — An Israeli citizen has been charged with colluding with Iranian spies, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency and police announced in a joint statement Tuesday. The suspect, charged Tuesday, was tasked with posting public notices in Tel Aviv, hiding money in various locations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and delivering packages containing threatening messages, including a severed head of …

How Israel could respond to Iran attack - from covert ops behind enemy lines to blitz on Tehran's proxies or devastating missile and 'bunker bomb' strikes on nuke sites... amid fears escalation could
11 months, 1 week ago

How Israel could respond to Iran attack - from covert ops behind enemy lines to blitz on Tehran's proxies or devastating missile and 'bunker bomb' strikes on nuke sites... amid fears escalation could

Daily Mail  

Iran sent more than 300 missiles and drones streaking towards Israel early Sunday morning in what was the first-ever direct strike on the Jewish state by Tehran. This photo taken on April 14, 2024 shows flares from explosions in the sky over Jerusalem as Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts missiles and drones from Iran Israeli Iron Dome air defense …

Iran executes 4 ’Israeli spies’ linked to espionage operation. Details here
1 year, 1 month ago

Iran executes 4 ’Israeli spies’ linked to espionage operation. Details here

Live Mint  

Iran executed four people that they claimed were connected to an Israeli espionage operation, Iranian state media has reported. As per the report, the defendants were accused of illegally entering Iranian territory from Iraq's Kurdistan region to carry out a bombing operation in an Isfahan-based factory producing equipment for Iran's Ministry of Defence. Late last month, Iran executed four people …

Iran launches strikes against 'spy headquarters, terrorist ops' in Iraq and Syria
1 year, 2 months ago

Iran launches strikes against 'spy headquarters, terrorist ops' in Iraq and Syria

India TV News  

Middle East tensions: Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced that they attacked "Israeli spy headquarters" in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region as regional conflict as well as against the Islamic State in Syria, the state media reported late on Monday. one of the main Mossad espionage headquarters in Iraq's Kurdistan region was destroyed with ballistic missiles," the Guards said in a statement. In …

Israel orders top spies to hunt down 'every single individual' involved in Hamas' October 7 massacre - as PM Netanyahu warns of a 'do-or-die double battle' growing on a second front Hezbollah in Leban
1 year, 5 months ago

Israel orders top spies to hunt down 'every single individual' involved in Hamas' October 7 massacre - as PM Netanyahu warns of a 'do-or-die double battle' growing on a second front Hezbollah in Leban

Daily Mail  

Israel has ordered elite spies to hunt down and assassinate 'every single individual' involved in the October 7 atrocity as it fights a growing war on two fronts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned that the nation was in a 'do-or-die double battle' to 'erase Hamas' in Gaza while trying to hold back against Hezbollah firing missiles from Lebanon. Prime …

Israel says it foiled Iranian plot to target, spy on senior Israeli politicians
1 year, 6 months ago

Israel says it foiled Iranian plot to target, spy on senior Israeli politicians

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israel arrested five Palestinians in a plot allegedly hatched in Iran to target and spy on senior Israeli politicians, including Israel’s far-right national security minister, the country’s internal security agency said Wednesday. The Shin Bet security service alleged that an Iranian security official living in neighboring Jordan had recruited three Palestinian men in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and …

Israel’s spy agency Mossad busts plot against killing rich Jews in Cyprus
1 year, 8 months ago

Israel’s spy agency Mossad busts plot against killing rich Jews in Cyprus

Live Mint  

Israel's Mossad spy service announced on Thursday that its agents inside Iran seized the head of an alleged Iranian hit squad that planned to kill Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus. “We will reach whoever foments terrorism against Jews and Israelis around the world, including on Iranian soil,” said the Mossad statement, quoting an unnamed senior agency official. On Thursday, Israel released …

Israel’s Netanyahu: Mossad helped Greece uncover terror plot
2 years ago

Israel’s Netanyahu: Mossad helped Greece uncover terror plot

Associated Press  

ATHENS, Greece — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Tuesday said his country’s intelligence agency Mossad helped Greece prevent a terrorist attack planned against at least one Jewish site in Athens. “After the start of the investigation of the suspects in Greece, the Mossad rendered intelligence assistance in unraveling the infrastructure, its work methods and the link to Iran,” the …

Two men arrested in kidnapping plot targeting Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad living in Brooklyn
2 years, 2 months ago

Two men arrested in kidnapping plot targeting Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad living in Brooklyn

The Independent  

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Iran executes four people accused of spying for Mossad
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran executes four people accused of spying for Mossad

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Authorities in Iran have executed …

Iran executes four people accused of working for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran executes four people accused of working for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency

Firstpost  

Israel and Iran are regional arch-enemies and Iran occasionally announces the detention of people it says are spying for foreign countries, including the United States and Israel Cairo: Iranian authorities executed four people Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency said. Israel and Iran are regional arch-enemies and Iran occasionally announces the detention …

Iran executes four accused of working with Israeli intelligence
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran executes four accused of working with Israeli intelligence

Al Jazeera  

The individuals allegedly received payment in cryptocurrencies to buy weapons and engage in kidnappings. Tehran, Iran – Iran has executed four people and handed prison sentences to three others accused of working with Israeli intelligence. The four individuals – identified as Hossein Ordoukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmoudabad, Milad Ashrafi Atbatan, and Manouchehr Shahbandi Bojandi – were hanged early on Sunday, according …

Iran arrests ‘spies linked to Israel’s Mossad’
2 years, 8 months ago

Iran arrests ‘spies linked to Israel’s Mossad’

Al Jazeera  

Iran’s law enforcement intelligence organisation says Mossad gave pledges to the five arrested members of the spy network. “The arrested five members of this spy network were given various pledges from Mossad, including financial promises, to gather information from important areas across the country,” the law enforcement intelligence organisation said in a statement reported by the semi-official ILNA news agency. …

Iran says suspected Israel cell members planning attack arrested
2 years, 8 months ago

Iran says suspected Israel cell members planning attack arrested

Al Jazeera  

The intelligence ministry says the arrested individuals were purportedly about to blow up an unspecified ‘sensitive centre’ in Isfahan. Tehran, Iran – Iran says its intelligence forces have arrested suspected members of an Israeli cell hours before they were allegedly planning to carry out a major “terrorist” bombing operation in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. Iran’s intelligence ministry, in …

Iran says it foiled Israel-linked attacks on ‘sensitive’ sites
2 years, 8 months ago

Iran says it foiled Israel-linked attacks on ‘sensitive’ sites

Al Jazeera  

Iran has long accused Israel of carrying out attacks against its nuclear sites and assassinations of key figures. Iran’s intelligence ministry has announced the arrest of a network of agents linked to Israel’s Mossad who entered Iran to carry out attacks against “sensitive” sites, state media reported. The announcement by Iran’s intelligence ministry came amid heightening tensions with regional rival …

Former Israeli intelligence chief confirms country's role in Soleimani murder
3 years, 3 months ago

Former Israeli intelligence chief confirms country's role in Soleimani murder

Hindustan Times  

Israel's former military intelligence chief says the country was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. A poster of the late Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani is seen while Iranian people commemorate Arbaeen in Tehran, Iran Soleimani headed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force and helped orchestrate Iran's involvement with …

Ex-intel chief confirms Israel’s role in Soleimani killing
3 years, 3 months ago

Ex-intel chief confirms Israel’s role in Soleimani killing

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israel’s former military intelligence chief says the country was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. Earlier this year, a Yahoo News reported that Israel “had access to Soleimani’s numbers” and gave that intelligence to the United States. Heyman said that Israeli strikes had succeeded in “preventing the attempt by Iran …

Israel's outgoing spy chief hints the country was behind Iran nuclear program attacks
3 years, 9 months ago

Israel's outgoing spy chief hints the country was behind Iran nuclear program attacks

ABC  

The outgoing chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran's nuclear program and a military scientist. Key points: The media report suggested explosives were hidden in a marble foundation for Iran's centrifuges Mr Cohen also discussed the killing of an Iranian scientist who began Tehran's military nuclear program …

Iranian nuclear scientist killed by Israeli automated gun: Report
4 years, 1 month ago

Iranian nuclear scientist killed by Israeli automated gun: Report

Al Jazeera  

The Jewish Chronicle says Israeli-led team of 20 plus agents killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using a smuggled one-tonne gun. The Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran in November was killed by a one-tonne gun smuggled into Iran in pieces by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, according to a report by The Jewish Chronicle. Citing intelligence sources, the British weekly said a …

Israeli spy dramas fuel interest in joining secretive Mossad agency
4 years, 3 months ago

Israeli spy dramas fuel interest in joining secretive Mossad agency

The Telegraph  

It is often considered the most secretive and ruthless of all spy networks, emerging briefly from the shadows to confront Israel's enemies before vanishing once more. But a wave of nail-biting spy thrillers on streaming websites, as well as last month’s high profile assassination of an Iranian scientist, have placed Mossad firmly in the public eye. “When people see the …

Iran president says Israel was behind killing of scientist
4 years, 3 months ago

Iran president says Israel was behind killing of scientist

Associated Press  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Monday claimed that Israel was behind the killing of a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s in an effort to start a war in the last days of President Trump’s administration. “These are not matters of discussion, at all.” Rouhani also said the reaction of the …

'Israel Acting As Mercenary For United States', Iran President Hassan Rouhani On Assassination Of Nuclear Scientist
4 years, 3 months ago

'Israel Acting As Mercenary For United States', Iran President Hassan Rouhani On Assassination Of Nuclear Scientist

ABP News  

Iran accuses Israel of scientist's murder Commenting on the death of scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian official on Monday blaming arch-foe Israel and an exiled opposition group, said that the scientist was killed in a new type of "complex operation.”The "operation was very complex, using electronic equipment and no one was present at the scene," said the secretary of …

Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh assassination: Leaked data shows how 62-member squad executed the plot
4 years, 3 months ago

Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh assassination: Leaked data shows how 62-member squad executed the plot

Op India  

In a dramatic operation, Iranian top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and a brigadier general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was assassinated on the outskirts of Tehran on Friday triggering a new crisis in West Asia. According to ELINT News, an independent organisation that covers geostrategic developments in the region and London-based journalist M Majed, the initial assessment of …

Iran FM: Indications of Israeli role in scientist's killing
4 years, 4 months ago

Iran FM: Indications of Israeli role in scientist's killing

The Independent  

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Gunned-down Iranian nuclear scientist was an Israeli target for years
4 years, 4 months ago

Gunned-down Iranian nuclear scientist was an Israeli target for years

LA Times  

He was one of Iran’s preeminent nuclear scientists, the country’s answer to Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to build a nuclear bomb during World War II. The killing of Fakhrizadeh is certain to rattle Iran and incite calls for revenge similar to those that followed the U.S. strike in Iraq in January that killed Maj. …

Israeli intelligence inputs confirmed Qasem Soleimani’s Baghdad location: report
5 years, 2 months ago

Israeli intelligence inputs confirmed Qasem Soleimani’s Baghdad location: report

India TV News  

Israel provided the US with key intelligence inputs which helped the US forces confirm and verify the location of slain Iranian top commander Major General Qasem Soleimani, reports in US and Iranian media say. Citing unnamed military sources quoted by The New York Times, Iran’s Fars News Agency said in an article on Sunday that US had been trying to …

Israel is using an algorithm to spot the next 'lone wolf terrorist', and soon other countries will too
6 years, 3 months ago

Israel is using an algorithm to spot the next 'lone wolf terrorist', and soon other countries will too

ABC  

Fadi Zebar fits the digital profile of a potential "lone wolf terrorist". Key points: In 2016 Israel's military promoted the use of "predictive intelligence" technology Israel claims to have prevented 590 attacks in the past year The US is developing a similar system He's a young Palestinian man from a restive village in the West Bank, where houses have been …

Israel’s Mossad spy agency shrouded in mystery and mystique
6 years, 10 months ago

Israel’s Mossad spy agency shrouded in mystery and mystique

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israel’s seizure of Iran’s purported nuclear program archive and the dramatic display of the documents taken from a facility in the heart of Tehran marked a rare case of Israel going public about the operations of its top-secret Mossad spy agency. Eli Cohen managed to forge close contacts within the political and military hierarchy of Israel’s archenemy in …

Egypt refers nine to court over spying for Israel
11 years, 9 months ago

Egypt refers nine to court over spying for Israel

India TV News  

Cairo, June 27: Egypt's public prosecutor referred nine people, including six foreigners, to the criminal court Wednesday for allegedly spying for Israel, a media report said. Talaat Abdullah ordered three Egyptians and six Israelis including four officers at the Israeli directorate of military intelligence to the court. But it wasn't clear whether all of them were in the country or …

Mossad: the service that's really secret
12 years, 1 month ago

Mossad: the service that's really secret

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh …

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