A Mossad Hit for the CIA?

According to the reports, Mossad agents have conducted frequent operations in Iran, especially against the country’s nuclear installations, relying largely on information received from Unit 8200 of the IDF’s intelligence unit. Another report states that the Mossad has killed at least five Iranian scientists between 2008 and 2012, and was behind the destruction of laboratories and of missile sites.

In 2018, under the mullahs’ noses, Mossad agents broke into an industrial warehouse in Tehran, stole the country’s nuclear archives, and were able to abscond with the goods — according to foreign reports, via Azerbaijan — and return to their base in Glilot.

Again and again, the Iranians are left puzzling over the access and excellent sources Israeli intelligence has in their territory. After a blow like al-Masri’s assassination, Iranian intelligence heads ask themselves who is next in the line of fire. Then they launch a crackdown on traitors, real and imagined. The Mossad’s rent-free hold on Iranian minds leaves them less headspace to plot attacks and seek revenge.

Al-Masri was wanted in the United States because of the central role he played in planning attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. In all, 224 people died in those attacks, of whom 12 were American citizens; about 4,000 were injured. The attacks in Africa were carried out with explosive-rigged trucks, and they alerted America to the existence of Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization, which had been expelled from Sudan to Afghanistan two years prior.