JERUSALEM POST
New Mossad chief hints at more assassinations, attacks against Iran
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
June 1, 2021

Incoming Mossad director David Barnea on Tuesday gave a threatening speech against Iran, alluding to potential future assassinations of its nuclear scientists and attacks on its nuclear facilities. “The Iranian [nuclear] program will continue to be met with the full power of the long arm of the Mossad,” Barnea said. “We are very familiar with the different components of the nuclear program and we are very familiar personally with the officials involved in it and also with the officials who direct them.” Though most of Barnea’s statements below were distributed to The Jerusalem Post and other outlets by the Prime Minister’s Office, the above veiled threat was reported by Yediot Aharonot. READ MORE

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