Former Mossad Chief: Israel Targeted Nuclear Program ‘in the Very Heartland’ of Iran

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said that Israel carried out “countless operations” against Iran’s nuclear program when he led the agency, also hitting out at the emerging nuclear accord between Iran and world powers.

“The regime in Iran is the global financier of terrorism in the world. This regime calls for the obliteration of the State of Israel from the map,” Cohen said, as the Biden administration appears to be on the cusp of signing a renewed nuclear deal with Tehran.

Speaking on Monday at a conference initiated by the WZO in Basel with over 1,400 participants, Cohen pointed out that Iran is trying to surround Israel from the south in Gaza, through the north in Syria and Lebanon.

Iran “trains and finances terrorist organizations. The regime allows terrorist organizations to send thousands of missiles towards Israel,” he charged.

He shared that during his tenure as head of the Mossad, his agents “carried out many operations against the Iranian nuclear program, including in the heart of Iran.”

He further warned that the Iranian regime “is lying to the whole world and we proved it when we brought thousands of documents from the Iranian archives, documents that proved that the Iranians lied to the IAEA.”

In April 2018, Israel exposed Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program called Project Amad, and its nuclear archive, a trove of more than 100,000 documents obtained by the Mossad, which revealed that Iran was developing five nuclear warheads as early as 2003 while lying to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency.

However, while the talks about a nuclear agreement with Iran are taking place, Cohen said he “can guarantee that Israel will do everything necessary to delay and prevent the Iranians from building atomic bombs that would threaten the State of Israel.”