Mossad chief Barnea: Our mission in Iran is not over until regime falls

The Mossad intelligence agency operated “in the heart of Tehran” during the recent US-Israeli campaign against Iran, Mossad Director David Barnea says at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.

“We brought precise intelligence to the Air Force, and we hit missiles that threatened Israel,” he says.

“But our mission has yet to be completed,” adds the spy chief. “We didn’t think that this mission would be completed immediately with the end of the battles. But we planned intensively for our campaign to continue and achieve results even in the period after the strikes in Tehran.”

Mossad’s responsibility in the matter, he says, will end “only when this radical regime is replaced.”

Regime change in Iran, says Barnea, “is our mission. We will not stand by, watching, in the face of another existential threat.”