{"id":256501,"date":"2026-08-19T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/256501\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:53:11","slug":"mossad-director-syria-foreign-minister-spoke-before-israeli-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/256501\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossad director, Syria foreign minister spoke before Israeli airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Israel&#8217;s Mossad spy agency, Roman Gofman, held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last week in which they discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-906018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Turkey&#8217;s<\/a> military presence in Syria, three people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>The call, which the sources said took place on August 14, came days before Israel launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-905966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">airstrikes<\/a> on a Syrian military airbase in the north of the country on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It marks one of the highest-level contacts yet between Israel and the new Syrian government since the fall of former dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli prime minister&#8217;s office, which handles queries regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/mossad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mossad<\/a>, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did a spokesperson for Shaibani.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of Israel&#8217;s Mossad spy agency, Roman Gofman, held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[37,2478,25068,95,30067,5769,1176],"class_list":["post-256501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-israel","tag-mossad","tag-roman-gofman","tag-syria","tag-syria-assad","tag-syria-israel","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117123455722033887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256501","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=256501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}