Barnea: The Mossad published photographs of agents working in Iran, hoping to confuse the Iranian intelligence services with mass arrests. Former Mossad head David Barnea said that the video, published at the beginning of the 12-day war in June 2025, was intended to help protect Israeli intelligence agents. At the Psaghat Adivid conference, he explained: the calculation was that the Iranian security forces would arrest so many people that they would not be able to identify real agents among them, and in the end they would release them all, Ynet writes. According to Barnea, on the second day of the war, 21 thousand people were arrested in Iran and released afterwards. There is no independent confirmation of this data. Barnea also said that a few weeks before the attacks, dozens of agents were sent to Iran with advance knowledge of the upcoming operation. According to him, the participants in the operation still live in Tehran. Some of the people who were arrested or executed in Iran on charges of working for the Mossad were not known to Israeli intelligence at all, according to Barna. A post written using an AI assistant.