Leaked Notes Reveal Mossad Incited Iran's Mass Arrests to Protect Secret Agents Former Mossad head David Barnea claims that Israeli intelligence intentionally released video footage of covert operations inside Iran to incite mass arrests, using Iranian citizens to protect its operational network. According to leaked notes published by the Jerusalem Post and video footage verified by Yedioth Ahronoth, Barnea admitted during a closed speech at the Priority Summit that the Israeli spy agency intentionally released real-time footage during the military confrontation in June 2025 to overwhelm the Iranian security forces. Barnea explained that the Mossad wanted to provoke sweeping arrests so that the Iranian counterintelligence "would not be able to distinguish between the wheat and the chaff. ". The former intelligence chief claims that the vast majority of those swept up by the Iranian authorities on charges of espionage had no operational connection to the Mossad. The meaning of these claims is that Israel deliberately created conditions designed to provoke systemic panic inside Iran, and that Israeli intelligence calculatedly exposed ordinary Iranian citizens to potential arrest in order to preserve its intelligence assets operating covertly inside Iran.

Leaked Notes Reveal Mossad Incited Iran's Mass Arrests to Protect Secret Agents Former Mossad head David Barnea claims that Israeli intelligence intentionally released video footage of covert operations inside Iran to incite mass arrests, using Iranian citizens to protect its operational network. According to leaked notes published by the Jerusalem Post and video footage verified by Yedioth Ahronoth, Barnea admitted during a closed speech at the Priority Summit that the Israeli spy agency intentionally released real-time footage during the military confrontation in June 2025 to overwhelm the Iranian security forces. Barnea explained that the Mossad wanted to provoke sweeping arrests so that the Iranian counterintelligence "would not be able to distinguish between the wheat and the chaff. ". The former intelligence chief claims that the vast majority of those swept up by the Iranian authorities on charges of espionage had no operational connection to the Mossad. The meaning of these claims is that Israel deliberately created conditions designed to provoke systemic panic inside Iran, and that Israeli intelligence calculatedly exposed ordinary Iranian citizens to potential arrest in order to preserve its intelligence assets operating covertly inside Iran.