EX-MOSSAD CHIEF REVEALS ISRAEL BEHIND IRANIAN NUKE SITE ATTACKS
The outgoing chief of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad has offered the closest acknowledgment yet that his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme.
The revealing comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 investigative programme Uvda, were made in a segment aired on Thursday night.
He also gave a clear warning to scientists in Iran’s nuclear programme that they, too, could become targets. “If the scientist is willing to change career and will not hurt us anymore, than yes, sometimes we offer them” a way out, Cohen said.
Among the attacks to target Iran, none have struck deeper than two explosions at the Natanz nuclear facility. In July 2020, a mysterious explosion tore apart Natanz’s advanced centrifuge assembly.
There, centrifuges enrich uranium from an underground hall designed to protect them from airstrikes.
Then in April this year, another blast tore apart one of its underground enrichment halls.