'Head of Iran's secret service was an Israeli spy': Ex-president Ahmadinejad's bombshell

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has revealed that the head of Iran's top secret service was himself an undercover Mossad agent.

In an interview with CNN-Turk, Ahmadinejad claimed that as many as 20 agents in Iran's intelligence team - which was an anti-Mossad unit - were actually Israeli spies who were leaking sensitive information to the Jewish country.

According to the former president, the double agents informed Israel about the Iranian nuclear programme.

“The boss of the Iranian anti-Mossad intelligence agency was a Mossad agent ... Iran’s secret services had created a special unit to combat Mossad operating in Iran. It turns out the head of this unit was himself a Mossad agent, along with 20 other agents, who were responsible for multiple operations in Iran, including stealing nuclear documents and assassinating several Iranian nuclear scientists before fleeing to Israel,” CNN-Turk tweeted quoting Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad, who is known as a hardline leader, further claimed that the alleged Mossad moles managed to flee the country before their secret was revealed in 2021 and are now living in Israel.

The claim, though unverified, shows the extent of Israel's deep penetration of enemies like Iran.

A recent report in a French newspaper claimed that an Iranian mole tipped off Israel on the location of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who was eliminated in an airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut.

According to The Times of Israel, several Iranian officials have previously commented on Mossad’s infiltration in Iran.

A former minister who served as an adviser to former president Hassan Rouhani claimed in 2022 that senior officials in Tehran should be concerned for their safety due to the “infiltration” of Israel’s spy agency, as reported by the London-based Persian-language news site Manoto.

Last week, Israel eliminated Nasrallah in an airstrike, dealing a severe blow to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Over a two-day period in September, thousands of pagers, as well as walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives, blew up in Lebanon, killing at least 39 people and wounding thousands.

The attacks were widely believed to have been carried out by Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.