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The head of Israel’s notorious intelligence agency, Mossad, claimed the group still has capabilities inside Iran that have yet to be deployed, according to the Times of Israel.
Mossad boss David Barnea spoke during a recent awards ceremony, warning that while Israel won the 12-day conflict with Iran, the spy agency is still planning operations — even in the “heart of Tehran.”
“We have won, and we will continue to win,” said Barnea, speaking at the Prime Minister’s Award ceremony, which was given this year to Mossad for its ongoing efforts to protect the Israeli people.
“Though we proved that Iran is penetrable, we are not letting up,” he added. “The Mossad has very strong operational capabilities, even more imaginative and powerful than before — especially inside Iran and even in the heart of Tehran.”
The event was attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and held on Sept. 17 — the one-year anniversary of the infamous beeper operation that killed at least nine and injured thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon.
“We will continue to build and strengthen our capabilities in Iran, to keep our eyes open from within Iran on what is happening behind closed doors, and we will not allow ideas that could endanger our security to grow,” he assured his audience.
Netanyahu praised the 12-day operation conducted in Iran that decimated the Islamic Republic’s air defense system and severely damaged its nuclear facilities.
“This operation was done with great effort, one of which was very great,” Netanyahu said. “I decided to call it ‘Operation Rising Lion’. Why a lion? Because the people rose up. The entire people rose up.”
Netanyahu said Iran still poses a major threat to the region, and that Mossad was working to derail Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“We were forced to take immediate action because if we hadn’t acted, within a year, this threat would have been over our heads, and would have beheaded the country,” he added.
