{"id":67786,"date":"2026-04-15T06:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/67786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:08:19","slug":"mossad-says-israel-will-keep-trying-to-topple-irans-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/67786\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossad says Israel will keep trying to topple Iran\u2019s government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel\u2019s spy chief pledged more covert efforts to try to topple Iran\u2019s government, a tacit acknowledgment the countries\u2019 conflict would continue even as the US pursues a new round of peace negotiations with the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">David Barnea, the head of Mossad, said Israel had not expected that its bombardment of Iranian military, nuclear and infrastructure sites, waged in concert with the US, would be enough to end Iran\u2019s 47-year-old clerical-led rule.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur mission has yet to be completed,\u201d he said in a speech on Tuesday. \u201cOur obligation will be discharged only after this extremist regime is replaced. This regime, which seeks our destruction, must pass from the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He did not expand on what Mossad might do. While Israel has carried out covert operations in Iran for years, it was rare for Mossad to say explicitly it was seeking regime change.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Israel\u2019s Mossad Director David Barnea. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/57f048f9-022a-4677-ba18-2c3618e95981_595de0ff.jpg\" title=\"Israel\u2019s Mossad Director David Barnea. Photo: AFP\"\/>Israel\u2019s Mossad Director David Barnea. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Barnea\u2019s comments signal the Israelis still see a major threat from Iran despite the damage dealt to its military capabilities from the roughly five-week-long campaign by the US-Israel alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s spy chief pledged more covert efforts to try to topple Iran\u2019s government, a tacit acknowledgment the countries\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,25067,496,34,37,49,2478,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-67786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-david-barnea","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-mossad","15":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116407232337569761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67786","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=67786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}