An investigation revealed that the Israeli Mossad kidnapped two senior Iranian generals in separate operations while searching for information on missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, who disappeared in Lebanon in 1986.
Iranian General Ali Reza Asghari was kidnapped in Istanbul in 2006, interrogated for weeks aboard a vessel, and then killed by Mossad operatives, with his body reportedly dumped in the Black Sea. In 2021, Mossad agents kidnapped General Abdullah Sabri in Damascus, interrogated him and eventually released him in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The investigation also reveals that a secret Iran-Hezbollah report concluded that Arad died in 1988 in the Lebanese village of Nabi Chit, where he was held captive.
According to reports, Israeli intelligence now sees Lebanon, and not Iran, as the most likely location for his remains.