Ex-Mossad chief hints that Israel attacked Iran

THE outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet that his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a scientist.

The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israeli programme Uvda, offered an extraordinary debriefing and gave a clear warning to other scientists in Iran’s nuclear programme that they could become targets for assassination.

“If the scientist is willing to change career and will not hurt us any more, then yes, sometimes we offer them a way out,” Mr Cohen said.

Among the major attacks on Iran were two explosions at its Natanz nuclear facility, where centrifuges enrich uranium from an underground hall designed to protect them from air strikes.

The interviewer asked Mr Cohen where he would take them if they could travel to Natanz, and he said “to the cellar” where “the centrifuges used to spin”.

“It doesn’t look like it used to look,” he added.