The head of Iran’s unit tasked with monitoring and impeding Israeli intelligence activities in the country was himself a Mossad agent, along with 20 other members of the unit, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has admitted.
The embarrassing revelation came during an interview with the hardline Iranian politician and CNN Türk.
According to Ahmadinejad, Tehran had assembled a secret service unit some years ago which was meant to thwart the covert operations of Israel’s Mossad and target its agents operating in Iran.
In 2021, however, it became clear that the unit’s most senior member was himself a double agent, by which time he and other undercover operatives had already stolen sensitive Iranian nuclear documents to share with Israel.
