On February 28, 2026, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was assassinated in a joint American–Israeli airstrike. The operation depended on a vast intelligence infrastrucutre in Iran that Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, has built over decades. How did Israel build it? And how does it continue to operate despite the IRGC’s best efforts to snuff out Mossad agents? Yonah Jeremy Bob, the Jerusalem Post’s senior military and intelligence analyst and co-author of Target Tehran, joins Jonathan Silver to explain how the Mossad constructed one of the deepest intelligence networks ever assembled against a hostile state. Their conversation explores the human foundations of Israeli intelligence inside Iran—who Mossad recruits, why they cooperate, and how those networks have enabled some of the most daring operations every carried out. Bob walks through three extraordinary case studies: the 2018

Source: Inside the Mossad’s Secret War on Iran | Yonah Jeremy Bob | Tikvah Podcast