Iran soldiers go over to the Mossad?
Can this be true?:
A social media account, reportedly belonging to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, has claimed it has been contacted by hundreds of soldiers and officers who wish to abandon Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
A Persian-language X/Twitter handle, which styles itself as an official Mossad account, wrote Thursday that it has been overwhelmed by the response it received from members of the IRGC, the Iranian regime’s military arm, and urged willing defectors to be patient and wait to be contacted by the intelligence agency.
“We expected it, but not to this extent!” the Mossad Farsi posted. “Hundreds of active IRGC soldiers and officers, fed up with this regime, are reaching out to us.”
I have no idea whether that’s true.
I do know that a turning point for any regime is when its own security forces defect and/or no longer will enforce the regime’s wishes. In the case of Iran, it may be that the IRGC no longer sees this regime as the strong horse.
They can’t be thinking Mossad will hire them for the same jobs?
This is the rational thing to do given the recent history of Israel’s campaigns against its enemies, and the support from the United States. Self preservation.
Imagine yourself as a junior officer in the IRC or especially the Iranian Army. You’ve just lived through a situation where your nation has absolutely no air defenses and you’re staring down three American carrier strike groups and the Israeli Air Force. You pretty much know that neither the Americans nor the Israelis are going to just start mass bombings, but this is only by the grace of God. You know from Persia’s long history that things haven’t always been so lucky. When the Mongols came through they murdered every Persian man, woman, and child they found. As an officer and a patriot, you see the state of your country and are deeply humiliated.
At lunch in a quiet corner in the officers’ mess with a couple of buddies, one of you gives voice to what everyone is thinking: “You know, fifty years ago, those three strike groups were on our side…”.
Clearly SOMEBODY in Iran was working for Mossad. I doubt Iran found them all in the last two weeks–or any of them, and didn’t just execute “the usual suspects”. But there’s probably still openings.
Nice if true. I’m reasonably sure that the vast majority of Iranians no longer support the radical regime. They are justifiably afraid of what the remaining armed regime supporters might do to them if they rise up, however.
I bet the Mossad treats these offers (if true) from IRGC members with all appropriate caution. If not true, what a clever disinformation campaign!
THIS is how a coup begins. Patiently, gaining contacts with access to arms. Using codes, develop leaders who want to be the face of a post-cleric Iran — and capable of more.
It takes time to find out who to network with without exposure and collapse.
Even then, it’s risky business.
This is just a wild guess, but often when you have an authoritarian nut-job regime trying to survive stressful times, purges are mounted against their own people to ensure “loyalty.” Possibly, these are people worried about losing their lives in such a purge.
I noticed that story a couple weeks ago — that Mossad had put up a website for Iranians to contact in order to defect.
Sneaky Mossad!
The website did a bang-up business. The Iranian government cracked down on the website and the internet in general.
I’m not sure where things stand today, but I’m sure Mossad hasn’t given up and Iranians still want to defect.
Related, albeit indirectly — Hudson Inst and IsraelTV7, Jonatan Hessen wt Mike Doran, “Israel-Iran War, What’s Next?”: https://youtu.be/SbjGp4qV1ho
What’s interesting there is the discussion of Israel’s knowledge (and the US’s too) about the state of Iran’s forces and the damage to those forces being better than Iran’s knowledge about the same subject. Iranian leaders are being informed by their underlings with lies.
Why? Because the news is uniformity disastrous; it’s news the leaders don’t want to hear, indeed cannot hear. Totalitarianism, y’know. It goes like that.
So quite apart from the psychological/information ops Mossad is no doubt conducting, the murk inside Iran is sure to be highly unsettling. Certainty about anything is going to be hard come by. Time must pass. Time to gather thoughts, time to organize response (whether pro or con vis a vis the regime) will be the necessary rule. We too must wait.
Can’t afford to give any of these guys a weapon. See “blue on blue” in Astan.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1942624712695120373
*Iranians in Shock: Former Mossad Agent Reveals Covert Operations in the Heart of Tehran*
See link for Bild interview of agent.
sdferr on July 8, 2025 at 1:09 pm “… Former Mossad Agent Reveals Covert Operations …”
I am still a little uncomfortable with a former Mossad intelligence agent discussing or describing how they do things or their perceived advantage vs. or over their enemy.
I suppose it is nothing the Iranian “intelligence services” (even from the days of the Shah) would not or could not consider as they try to protect their regime and counter Israeli efforts to penetrate it. But wasn’t it Napoleon who said not to get in the way of an enemy making mistakes?
Conversely, if Russian or Chinese sources were to provide such “guidance” of their actions against the US and the West in general, I would welcome that information. And treat it as potential false flag information while trying to assess its validity and value.
@R2L: I am still a little uncomfortable with a former Mossad intelligence agent discussing or describing how they do things or their perceived advantage vs. or over their enemy.
I think it’s safe to say that if they are talking about it publicly now, then the direct value they got out of it is mostly used up, and they can get some more value indirectly by having it publicly known what they did.
Nikita
….and what they can do again. And are probably still doing.
Is it safe to say that EVERYTHING these days is psy-ops, meaning NOTHING can be believed…
…until it actually happens? (Or is attempted?)
And even then it will be spun this way and that according to the political prerogatives and necessities of those doing the spinning…
One has to triangulate and read between the lines as never before, which gives FSU, Iron Curtain and Cuban citizens a distinct advantage…when trying to figure out what’s going on. (Perhaps?)
@Barry Meislin:Is it safe to say that EVERYTHING these days is psy-ops…
If that term includes marketing, I wouldn’t disagree.
Especially marketing…which is why you’ll usually confound ‘em by—at least generally(?)—being truthful…(the biggest psy-op of all?)…
Anyway, related (if only tangentially…but you get the idea)…
“The Swamp Always Wins: Why Outsiders Break When They Enter Washington”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/swamp-always-wins-why-outsiders-break-when-they-enter-washington
File under: Buncha oozers…
+ Bonus
Playing by Palestinian rules—or Iranian, as the case may be…again and again and again…
“Obama Wants The Power To Define ‘Facts’”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/obama-wants-power-define-facts