A former Iranian intelligence minister has said all Iranian officials are at risk of being killed by the Mossad.
Ali Younesi, who served under reformist President Mohammad Khatami from December 2000 to August 2005, blamed Iranian intelligence for negligence.
Speaking in an interview with reformist Jamaran news website published on Tuesday, Younesi said rivalries between the Intelligence Ministry, the Intelligence Organization of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and other security services had led to weaknesses. "Parallel organizations are busy fighting insiders rather than monitoring and confronting infiltrators," Younesi argued.
He explained that "the Israeli Mossad was able to launch several strikes in Iran, to the extent that it has become a clear and explicit threat to Iranian officials."
He pointed out that the priority of the Iranian security services today is to "fight critics at home, not the Israeli security incursion."
