Iran’s Last Card 

Missile sirens in Israel may have gone quiet for the time being, but a new threat has emerged in recent weeks. Tehran’s tentacles extend throughout Europe and the US as well, and experts predict the Islamic Republic will ramp up the use of the only weapon it has left.

The statement issued by Israeli police a few days ago was almost aggressively terse: “The Southern District Fraud Unit arrested an Israeli citizen from Be’er Sheva, 25, yesterday at Ben-Gurion Airport on suspicion of security activity involving contact with an Iranian foreign agent. The arrest was carried out on the advice of the Shin Bet intelligence service.”

And yet behind those few lines lies what may well be the most alarming development for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government since the temporary ceasefires with its external enemies. The case marks the sixth arrest — in the span of just ten days — of an Israeli citizen suspected of collaborating with the Iranian regime.

This is no longer just a domestic concern — it’s a matter of global security. The missile sirens may have gone quiet, but a different kind of alarm is growing louder by the day: the fear of Iranian espionage, not just in Israel but across the Western world.

In recent days, Israeli law enforcement detained two young men between the ages of 18 and 20 from Tiberias, a 33-year-old man from Moshav Hamra in the Jordan Valley, and a couple in their thirties from Raanana. All of them, authorities suspect, had some form of contact with Iranian handlers.