“David Barnea was appointed head of the Mossad in 2021. Iran had been the organization’s main arena of operations for years. Barnea ordered a dramatic change in an area that had been marginal until then - driving influence within the general Iranian public. Under him, this area became central to the campaign against Iran”, the investigation noted.

“A regime can be overthrown from above, by relying on senior officials, or it can be overthrown from below, by cultivating mass protest and armed resistance by minorities. Israel has chosen both options at the same time: it will both chop off the chicken’s head and cook its own legs,” it added.

It added that the Mossad laid a “poison machine” within Iran designed to spur riots, writing, “The sterile term ‘influence’ does not express the scope of the effort and sophistication. Faced with a regime that is all poison, Israel has set up its own poison machine. The organization began four years ago and reached operational maturity two and a half years ago. This is a weapons system that, if activated at full power, could be deadly far beyond the boundaries of the social network”.

This “poison machine” was used by the Mossad to spark the riots that took place in Iran this January. The investigation wrote, “in January of this year, tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets, at their own pace. The enormous work that Israel had put in was behind the demonstrations”.

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The Mossad astroturfed riots, allowed Israel to convince the Trump administration to join the war on Iran, according to the investigation.

Previously, the Israeli “plan was for war in June 2026,” but after the Mossad astroturfed riots in January, “Netanyahu instructs the IDF and the Mossad to bring forward the timing of the operation.”

It added that “…

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