Barnea revealed: We published the Mossad video from the heart of Iran so that you would arrest thousands and not identify the agents

Former Mossad chief Dedi Barnea revealed new details about Operation "With a Lion" and the pager operation. According to him, the official video published by the Mossad was intended to protect agents by causing mass arrests in Iran. Barnea described the tense minutes before the pager activation and the experiments conducted to minimize harm to civilians.

Former Mossad chief Dedi Barnea revealed new details about Operation "With a Lion" and the pager operation against Hezbollah. Barnea said that the official video published by the Mossad on the morning of the operation, showing agents operating in Iran, was intended to protect them. According to him, the goal was to cause the mass arrest of thousands of people in Iran, so that they would not be able to distinguish between real agents and innocent people, and in the end they would release everyone. Barnea described that on the second day of the fighting, 21,000 people were arrested, and eventually released. He added that some of the people executed in Iran on espionage charges were not Mossad agents at all. Barnea also described the tense minutes before the pager operation was activated, when Prime Minister Netanyahu asked him what would happen if the operation did not work. Barnea told of hundreds of experiments conducted on dummies to minimize harm to civilians, and the red lines he set. He emphasized that 99.9% of Mossad agents have never been discovered, and that some of them still live in Tehran.