The New York Times investigation:
Israel kidnapped two Iranian generals in search of Ron Arad, an Israeli pilot who disappeared in Lebanon in 1986.
The investigation revealed
that Israel kidnapped the Iranian general Alireza Asgari, who disappeared in Istanbul in 2006.
The newspaper quotes former US officials as saying.
that Mossad agents interrogated him for weeks about the missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad.
and then killed him and dumped his body in the Black Sea, without obtaining any useful information.
For years, Israel denied any involvement in Asgari's disappearance. However, according to a former American official, several years later Iran raised the issue of the general's fate in negotiations with the United States. Israeli officials then told the American negotiating team that Asgari was already dead.
The investigation also notes that in 2021, the Mossad kidnapped General Abdullah Sabri from Damascus as part of the same operation.
To transport General Sabry, they used a large container designed for transporting refrigerators. After an investigation in Israel, he was released to South Africa.
The investigation also states that Israeli intelligence believes that it is likely that Ron Arad died in Lebanon in 1988.
and has never been held in Iran.