JERUSALEM: A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on Tuesday said its spies had visited Iran’s Fordow nuclear site “many times” in the past in order to better understand the facility.
In June last year, Israel launched a war against its arch-foe Iran with the stated goal of degrading its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, which it said posed an “existential threat.”
The United States military briefly joined Israel during the 12-day conflict, and used its advanced aircraft to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
“We toured the Fordow nuclear site many times to understand the site,” Yossi Cohen, who led the Mossad between 2015 and 2021, said during a conference of local authorities on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.
He didn’t elaborate on when exactly the visits took place or who made them.
