In a rare and extraordinary public account, an Iranian national who worked with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, has described in vivid detail his role in a covert operation inside Iran during the June 2025 Israel-Iran war, one of the most intense episodes of hostilities between the two nations in years. The interview, broadcast on Israeli Channel 12’s investigative news program Uvda, offers new insights into how Israeli intelligence penetrated Iranian territory to sabotage a capable ballistic missile system that was reportedly being readied to target Israeli cities.
The agent, identified only by the pseudonym “Arash,” told Uvda interviewer Ilana Dayan that he served as crucial on-the-ground support for a Mossad-led mission in Iran between June 12 and 13, 2025, at the height of the outbreak of direct conflict with Israel.
Arash described how he and his team assembled a weapons system designed to destroy a ballistic missile launcher “aimed towards Israel,” using coordinates provided by Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv.
He said the operation began late at night and required meticulous preparation, taking nearly 100 minutes to set up equipment in hostile territory, under the constant threat of detection.
“I was Mossad’s eyes inside this mission,” Arash told Uvda. He noted that he maintained direct communication with Mossad command throughout, waiting anxiously in a concealed position for the signal to activate the system.
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After hours of tension, the order came at around 3 am local time. Arash said he triggered the device and watched the missile launcher, reportedly ready to be used against Israeli targets, being destroyed.
From Iranian citizen to Mossad collaboratorArash’s story is as personal as it is clandestine. According to his account, he was born and raised in Iran and served in the Iranian military. However, a childhood trauma, witnessing his sister’s arrest and beating by authorities for removing her hijab, marked a turning point in his views toward the Tehran regime. His parents eventually fled Iran, and later in life Arash made the fateful decision to reach out to Israeli intelligence via a computer search, seeking a way to act against what he saw as oppression by the Islamic Republic.
Responding to Dayan’s question about whether he saw himself as a traitor to his homeland, Arash countered that his opposition was to the regime, not the Iranian people. “Mossad is not the enemy of my country, it’s the enemy of my enemy,” he said.
The mission Arash described occurred during the opening days of a wider conflict between Israel and Iran that saw unprecedented direct military engagement. In June 2025, Iran launched barrages of missiles and drones at Israeli cities, reportedly killing and injuring civilians, after Israel carried out major airstrikes against Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure.
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