{"id":244993,"date":"2026-08-11T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:08:16","slug":"mossad-toured-fordow-nuclear-site-many-times-ex-spy-chief-yossi-cohen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244993\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossad ‘toured’ Fordow nuclear site many times, ex-spy chief Yossi Cohen says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mossad toured the Fordow<\/a> nuclear site “many times” in order to understand it, former spy chief Yossi Cohen revealed at the Galilee Conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear whether Cohen was referring to agents physically present within the facility or to remote monitoring.<\/p>\n

“Its bombing by the Americans is the fulfillment of all my dreams,” Cohen added.<\/p>\n

Regarding reports that the Iranians are approaching a nuclear weapons breakout, Cohen argued that \u201curanium enriched to 60% is still far from a bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

As noted, the Fordow nuclear enrichment site, which is buried in a mountainous area, was attacked by the Americans during Operation Rising Lion<\/a>. At the time, the Islamic Republic\u2019s Atomic Energy Organization said the damage caused was \u201climited.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLimited damage was caused to several areas at the Fordow enrichment site, and we had already removed a significant portion of the equipment and materials. Therefore, there was no extensive damage, and there are no concerns about contamination,\u201d said Behrouz Kamalvandi, deputy head and spokesman of the organization.<\/p>\n

However, The Jerusalem Post is aware that the IDF has capabilities that could cause cave-ins at Fordow, which lies underneath a mountain. Additionally, initial estimates made known to the Post in March estimated that Fordow could be destroyed.<\/p>\n

However, due to the site’s location and construction, it might be unclear for a while what the true extent of the deal. Some Israeli officials told the Post they believe Fordow was destroyed, while others said caution should be the rule until confirmation.<\/p>\n

According to Kamalvandi, the enrichment complex at Natanz<\/a> was damaged mainly in its above-ground sections. He stressed that because most of the facilities are located underground, there was only a small amount of leakage inside that did not spread outside.<\/p>\n

The senior agency official also said that minor damage was caused to the nuclear complex in Isfahan<\/a>. He said there were no casualties in the strikes at any of the nuclear facilities and stressed that wherever damage was caused, \u201cwe will rebuild them in a much better way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many believed that Israeli attacks on Natanz and Isfahan in the 2025 war would set Iran’s nuclear program back anywhere from six months to two years or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mossad toured the Fordow nuclear site “many times” in order to understand it, former spy chief Yossi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[24524,34,62,2478,11742,5557,27439],"class_list":["post-244993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-fordow-nuclear-plant","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-mossad","tag-natanz","tag-nuclear-weapon","tag-yossi-cohen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117077508502255326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}