Israeli spy dramas fuel interest in joining secretive Mossad agency
4 years 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 James Bond movies, or Tehran, they want to be a part of it,” former Mossad agent Avner Avraham, who says it was 007 that first drew him to the service, told the Daily Telegraph. “Tehran” in particular has some parallels with events unfolding in the real world today, as it features a young, female undercover Mossad agent on operations in the Iranian capital. On November 27, Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was gunned down near Tehran in an ambush that seemed to have been plucked straight from the script of the Israeli spy series, which was first broadcast on public network Kan.

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Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran
1 week, 4 days 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.” …

All about the latest spy war: how Iran and Israel are relying heavily on espionage
1 month ago

All about the latest spy war: how Iran and Israel are relying heavily on espionage

India Today  

Espionage – intelligence, counter-intelligence, spies – is a central element of statecraft. With its many specialised divisions, resources, and trained individuals, Israeli intelligence has been largely able to repel Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’. Israel’s successful assassination of Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July, where he was attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian, sabotage of …

Iran recruiting Israeli citizens to spy against their government, with social media the key to luring them in
2 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 …

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

Mossad Alleged to have Used IRGC Agents in Tehran Assassination Plot
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Mossad Alleged to have Used IRGC Agents in Tehran Assassination Plot

Deccan Chronicle  

Tehran: After the aftermath of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh assassination in Tehran. Reports suggest that Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, utilised Iranian agents to carry out the operation. According to Hebrew media, members of the elite Ansar al-Mahdi unit from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were allegedly recruited by Mossad to execute the assassination. Sources from Israel's Defence Minister’s office said …

Iran executes 4 ’Israeli spies’ linked to espionage operation. Details here
10 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Taking care of the Qatar eight
1 year, 1 month ago

Taking care of the Qatar eight

New Indian Express  

Reports in well-respected international media have suggested that Israel spied on Qatar’s navy with the help of these eight hapless Indians and the domestic media has echoed these reports. Yet it runs counter to the SOP of any efficient or effective spy agency to use eight persons working together in one operation. According to veterans in the global intelligence community, …

Taking care of the Qatar eight
1 year, 1 month ago

Taking care of the Qatar eight

New Indian Express  

Reports in well-respected international media have suggested that Israel spied on Qatar’s navy with the help of these eight hapless Indians and the domestic media has echoed these reports. Yet it runs counter to the SOP of any efficient or effective spy agency to use eight persons working together in one operation. According to veterans in the global intelligence community, …

Iran says ex-official had role in death of nuclear scientist
1 year, 11 months ago

Iran says ex-official had role in death of nuclear scientist

Al Jazeera  

Iran state media claims British-Iranian Alireza Akbari, sentenced to death on Wednesday, had a role in the 2020 assassination of a top military scientist. Iran’s official IRNA news agency has published a video purporting to show that British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari played a role in the 2020 assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist. Iran’s judicial news agency Mizan Online …

Iran arrests ‘spies linked to Israel’s Mossad’
2 years, 4 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: Revolutionary Guard officer assassinated in Tehran
2 years, 7 months ago

Iran: Revolutionary Guard officer assassinated in Tehran

Al Jazeera  

Hassan Sayyad Khodaei was a colonel in the Quds Force, the Guard’s foreign arm, with accusations leveled at Israeli and American intelligence. Gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire on a senior officer of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps outside his home, killing him in his car in the capital, Tehran. Speaking from Tehran, Abas Aslani, a senior research fellow …

Iranian Agents Are Facing Charges For Their Role In A Plot To Kidnap A U.S. Journalist
3 years, 5 months ago

Iranian Agents Are Facing Charges For Their Role In A Plot To Kidnap A U.S. Journalist

NPR  

Iranian Agents Are Facing Charges For Their Role In A Plot To Kidnap A U.S. Journalist Federal prosecutors in New York charged five foreign agents backed by the Iranian government for their roles in a stranger-than-fiction plot to kidnap a U.S. citizen and journalist critical of the nation's regime. The 43-page indictment unsealed Tuesday details the plan by an Iranian …

Iran's hit spy thriller is first shot in election culture war
3 years, 8 months ago

Iran's hit spy thriller is first shot in election culture war

The Telegraph  

The second season starts with a dramatic recreation of the arrest of dissident Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was lured to northern Iraq in an IRGC sting operation before being kidnapped and transported across the border to Iran, where he was eventually executed. “They’ve taken a lot of actual things happening inside the country and they’ve woven in this series …

Iran spy TV show ignites controversy for 2nd season
3 years, 8 months ago

Iran spy TV show ignites controversy for 2nd season

The Independent  

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Iranian nuclear scientist killed by Israeli automated gun: Report
3 years, 10 months 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 …

Iran’s Zarif warns of ‘misinformation’ over scientist’s killing
4 years ago

Iran’s Zarif warns of ‘misinformation’ over scientist’s killing

Al Jazeera  

Iranian foreign minister says a ‘targeted misinformation campaign and psychological war’ is on after Fakhrizadeh’s assassination. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned of a “targeted misinformation campaign and psychological war” following the assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist last week. Parliament aims to expel IAEA inspectors Zarif’s statement came as conservatives and hardliners in …

'Israel Acting As Mercenary For United States', Iran President Hassan Rouhani On Assassination Of Nuclear Scientist
4 years 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 official accuses Israel of killing Fakhrizadeh remotely
4 years ago

Iranian official accuses Israel of killing Fakhrizadeh remotely

Al Jazeera  

A senior Iranian security official offers a drastically different account of the high-profile assassination. Tehran, Iran – A senior Iranian security official alleges that Israel assassinated top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using remote-controlled technology. “Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was done using electronic equipment and no were at the scene,” Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National …

Assassination and its aftermath
4 years ago

Assassination and its aftermath

The Hindu  

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian scientist who led Iran’s nuclear weapons programme until it was disbanded, was assassinated last week. Mr. Trump, because of his dislike for former President Barack Obama, may be willing to order air strikes on Iranian nuclear installations in order to pre-empt the U.S.’s return to the nuclear agreement that was the foremost achievement of Mr. Obama’s …

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

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Suspected of Leading Covert Atomic Bomb Programme Assassinated
4 years ago

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Suspected of Leading Covert Atomic Bomb Programme Assassinated

News 18  

An Iranian nuclear scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret atomic weapons programme was assassinated near Tehran on Friday, Iranian state media reported. Fakhrizadeh has long been described by Western, Israeli and Iranian exile foes of Iran’s clerical rulers as a leader of a covert atomic bomb programme halted in 2003. The semi-official news agency Tasnim said …

Who is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the 'father of the Iranian bomb' assassinated near Tehran?
4 years ago

Who is Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the 'father of the Iranian bomb' assassinated near Tehran?

The Telegraph  

"Remember that name," Israel's prime minister said of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during a 2018 speech where he accused the scientist of leading Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme. On Friday the same man, who was known as "the father of the Iranian bomb," died in a hospital near Tehran after his car was sprayed with bullets by unidentified assassins. Mr Fakhrizadeh is …

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Who was the assassinated Iranian scientist?
4 years ago

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Who was the assassinated Iranian scientist?

Al Jazeera  

Iranian scientist widely seen by Western intelligence as mastermind behind Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday, was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Israel has also described the AMAD Plan as Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme, …

Top Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran
4 years ago

Top Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran

Al Jazeera  

Iranian foreign minister condemns killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as an ‘act of state terror’ and links Israel to the attack. Fakhrizadeh was shot “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Absard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and he later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a “martyr’s death”, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Iran’s foreign minister alleged the …

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