Leaked Notes Show Mossad Instigated Mass Arrests in Iran to Protect Its Secret Agents Former Mossad head David Barnea said Israeli intelligence deliberately released videos of covert operations carried out inside Iran to provoke mass arrests, using Iranian citizens to protect its real operational network. According to comments leaked by the Jerusalem Post and video footage confirmed by Yedioth Ahronoth, Barnea admitted during a private speech at the Psagat Adifita conference that the Israeli intelligence service intentionally distributed live video during the military confrontation in June 2025 in order to confuse the Iranian security forces. Barnea explained that the Mossad sought to provoke large-scale arrests so that the Iranian counterintelligence could not distinguish between the wheat and the chaff. The former intelligence chief says the vast majority of those arrested by Iranian authorities on espionage charges had no operational ties to the Mossad. These statements indicate that Israel intentionally created conditions designed to create systemic panic within Iran, and that Israeli intelligence intentionally exposed ordinary Iranian citizens to the risk of arrest in order to protect its intelligence assets operating secretly inside Iran.

Leaked Notes Show Mossad Instigated Mass Arrests in Iran to Protect Its Secret Agents Former Mossad head David Barnea said Israeli intelligence deliberately released videos of covert operations carried out inside Iran to provoke mass arrests, using Iranian citizens to protect its real operational network. According to comments leaked by the Jerusalem Post and video footage confirmed by Yedioth Ahronoth, Barnea admitted during a private speech at the Psagat Adifita conference that the Israeli intelligence service intentionally distributed live video during the military confrontation in June 2025 in order to confuse the Iranian security forces. Barnea explained that the Mossad sought to provoke large-scale arrests so that the Iranian counterintelligence could not distinguish between the wheat and the chaff. The former intelligence chief says the vast majority of those arrested by Iranian authorities on espionage charges had no operational ties to the Mossad. These statements indicate that Israel intentionally created conditions designed to create systemic panic within Iran, and that Israeli intelligence intentionally exposed ordinary Iranian citizens to the risk of arrest in order to protect its intelligence assets operating secretly inside Iran.