By US Daily Review Staff.
Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, sends operatives into and out of Iran on a regular basis; and the mysterious men on motorcycles who have assassinated at least four Iranian nuclear scientists are Israelis.
Those are among the revelations in a new book about Israeli espionage, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman (Levant Books: published July 9).
Raviv and Melman’s previous book about Israel’s intelligence community, Every Spy a Prince, was a national (New York Times) best seller for fourteen weeks in 1990. They have more details on their blog, IsraelSpy.com.
According to their new book, Israeli spies have a multitude of routes for entering and exiting Iran, and the routes and safe houses inside Iran date back to before 1979, when a revolution brought the Islamic Republic’s ayatollahs to power.
The authors write that Israel – for decades using the Mossad as “an alternative foreign ministry” – maintains cooperative relationships with Kurds and other ethnic minorities inside Iran and just outside its borders. But the book says the assassinations of scientists were not conducted by Iranian dissidents.
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The authors write: ““For such a sensitive dangerous and daring mission as a series of assassinations in Iran’s capital, the Mossad would not depend on hired-gun mercenaries,” Raviv and Melman assert. “They would be considered far less trustworthy and there was hardly any chance that the Mossad would reveal to non-Israelis some of its assassination unit’s best methods.”
Al Monitor reports further: “One strength of the book is that the authors do not use euphemisms. The Mossad had a ‘kill list’ long before US President Barack Obama and has stolen military technology from the United States that Israel could not obtain by other means, they say.”
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