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.

Former Mossad chief says US bombing of Fordow in June 2025 was ‘the fulfillment of all my dreams’; he also argues uranium enriched to 60% is still ‘far from a bomb’

Israeli intel chief supports US strikes on Iran's Fordow site, leading to a drop in market confidence; reconstruction funding in a US-Iran deal at 18.5% YES.