Amid reports suggesting that the United States and Iran could engage in second round of talks, Israel's intelligence agency Mossad wants the Islamic regime in Tehran replaced.
Mossad Director David Barnea said on Tuesday that the agency operated in the heart of Tehran when the war broke out and that its missione is not over yet.
"We brought precise intelligence to the Air Force, and we hit missiles that threatened Israel," Barnea said, We didn’t think that this mission would be completed immediately with the end of the battles. But we planned intensively for our campaign to continue and achieve results even in the period after the strikes in Tehran."
Barnea asserted that Mossad's responsibility will end "only when this radical regime is replaced." He said Mossad will not stand by watching in the face of another existential threat.
Barnea's statement comes hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listed Iranian nuclear sites alongside Nazi death camps, saying, "We promised there would be no second Holocaust, and this year, we fulfilled that promise in practice. Had we not acted, the names Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Parchin might have been remembered eternally in infamy, just like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and Sobibor."
Israel is set to appoint Netanyahu's military secretary Roman Gofman as the new Mossad intelligence head. Set to succeed Barnea in June, Gofman is a veteran military general who was responsible for rescuing Israeli communities attacked by Hamas infiltrators on October 7, 2023.