Report: Mossad deployed more than 100 foreign agents in Iran at start of war in largest ever operation

16 September 2025, 10:15 pm

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Screenshot from footage released by the Mossad showing strikes carried out by commandos of the Israeli spy agency on Iranian air defenses in Iran, June 13, 2025. (Mossad screenshot)

The Mossad deployed some 100 foreign agents in Iran at the start of the June war, tasked with destroying many of Iran’s missile launchers and air defense systems at the start of the war, Channel 13 reports.

The report says the agents were highly trained and placed and operated missile systems that weighed hundreds of kilograms, and which had been smuggled into Iran, that were used to target Iran’s ballistic missile launchers and anti-aircraft missile systems.

The report says this was the largest-ever operation run by the Mossad and was incredibly complex, given the need to train the agents, who were not Israeli, in the use of the sophisticated missile systems.