Time Magazine: Fearing Iran’s Response, Mossad to Cut Covert Operations in Iran

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A Time Magazine report revealed on Friday that ""Israeli" intelligence services have scaled back their covert operations inside Iran."

According to senior security officials who spoke to the magazine, operations have been reduced in areas such as high-profile missions, including assassinations and detonations at Iranian missile bases, as well as in recruiting spies inside the Iranian nuclear program, and efforts to gather on-the-ground intelligence.

The "Israeli" officials confirmed that "the reduced activities are due to the reluctance of "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is worried about the outcome of the operations being discovered."

The report further clarified that "Iranian intelligence already cracked a cell trained and equipped by the Mossad."

In this context, "western intelligence confirmed that the detailed confession of Majid Jamali Fashid over the January 2010 assassination by motorcycle bomb of nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohmmadi was genuine and blamed a third country for exposing the cell."

The magazine also claimed that "a new US reluctance to turn a blind eye to said assassinations may be a thing of the past," pointing out that "after the killing of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in January, the US categorically denied involvement in the death and issued a condemnation."
"Scaling back covert operations against Iran carries cost especially as Iran hurries to disperse its centrifuges into facilities deep underground," "Time Magazine" said.

Source: Time Magazine, Edited by moqawama.org


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