The "New York Times" reports, in an extensive investigation based on interviews with dozens of Israeli, Iranian and American officials, that the Mossad kidnapped former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asgari in Turkey, interrogated him for weeks about the disappearance of Israeli Air Force navigator Ron Arad, and killed him after the investigation failed to reveal the evidence linking him to the case.
According to Asgris' wife, he disappeared from a hotel in Istanbul in December 2006, and Israel has denied involvement in his disappearance over the years.