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Israel Intentionally Released Footage Of Mossad Operatives In Iran To Provoke Mass Arrests

Via Middle East EyeFormer Mossad chief David Barnea has said Israel intentionally released images of their covert operation in Iran during the June 2025 conflict to provoke mass arrests and make it harder for Iranian forces to find real Israeli agents.”One of the reasons we immediately released an official video on the morning of Operation Rising Lion, with the Mossad logo, was to protect the agents who were there,” Barnea said, according to comments The Jerusalem Post reported on 25 October.

A screengrab from a social media video shows cars set on fire during a protest at Saadat Abad Square in Tehran, 9 January 2026. UGC/AFP

Barnea said the leak of the footage of Israeli operations in Iran was not just an attempt to showcase the Mossad’s reach but also a strategy to overwhelm Iranian counterintelligence, causing them to make mass arrests, making it more difficult to distinguish operatives from ordinary citizens.“We wanted to make sure they arrested so many people in Iran that they wouldn’t be able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff and would eventually release everyone,” he said.Barnea said Iranian authorities arrested 21,000 people during the operation. “You have to imagine that when you arrest 21,000 people, even if you’ve caught an agent or two, eventually you have to release them because everyone’s story will be the same: I was walking down the street, I was driving a car, they arrested me,” he said.Barnea added that many people arrested or executed on accusations of working for Israel had no connection to the Mossad.“Some of the people being hanged in Iran on accusations of being Mossad agents, I have to ask who they are,” he said. “They tell me, ‘Listen, we don’t know either.’”He described some of those executed as “just unfortunate people whom they decided were our agents, but who never worked for the Mossad, and probably never worked for any other intelligence organisation either”, according to the report.The remarks made at the Priority Summit on October 22 to a private audience have sparked a sharp response from Trita Parsi. Parsi, executive vice-president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, described it as an admission that Israel “used ordinary Iranians as tools to protect Mossad operatives” in the country.“Rarely will you find a more crude admission of how Israel deliberately and carelessly put thousands of people it claimed it sought to liberate in harm’s way,” Parsi wrote on X.Mass detentionsIsrael launched Operation Rising Lion on June 13, 2025, during which they bombed Iran and killed senior military commanders as well as scientists.After Iran retaliated with missile attacks on Israel, the 12-day war ended with a ceasefire. On the first morning of the attacks, the Mossad released videos showing what it said were its agents operating inside Iran.The footage included attacks on ballistic missile and air-defence targets, with the faces of those involved concealed. Iranian police announced in August 2025 that they had detained about 21,000 people during the 12-day conflict.Former Mossad chief David Barnea (Dadi) explained at a conference why the agency released footage of its operatives working inside Iran during Israel’s 12-day campaign against Iran in 2025.The footage released at the time was, without exaggeration, unprecedented: Mossad does… pic.twitter.com/5LBUJXivb1— Yigal Levin (@YigalLevin) October 25, 2026
Police spokesperson Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi said the arrests followed reports from members of the public and increased security measures. More than 260 suspects were arrested on suspicion of espionage and 172 people were arrested for illegal filming, the police statement said.Barnea’s comments come amid concerns over Iran’s use of espionage allegations to prosecute people following the conflict.Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in September 2025 that Iranian authorities had arrested more than 20,000 people after the outbreak of hostilities with Israel. Those targeted included journalists, human rights activists, social media users, members of ethnic and religious minorities, and foreigners.Iranian authorities have said they were responding to genuine threats from Israeli intelligence and collaborators inside the country. Tehran has repeatedly accused the Mossad of recruiting people to gather intelligence, carry out sabotage and assist military attacks.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/03/2026 – 03:20

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The former chief of the FBI’s Chicago field office said he was forced out of his job after he says he was wrongly blamed for the failed prosecution of six people who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Windy City, according to a lawsuit he filed on Monday.Douglas DePodesta sued top Justice Department officials, alleging that federal prosecutors pushed “politically motivated prosecutions” against Chicago demonstrators before gathering evidence, according to the lawsuit. He said his superiors notified him that FBI Director Kash Patel pushed for his ouster before he was forced to resign over the summer.”I saw the writing on the wall,” DePodesta told The Associated Press.DePodesta accused the top federal prosecutor in Illinois, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros, of launching a “campaign” within the DOJ to blame him after the so-called “Broadview Six” case fell apart earlier this year.TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS LOST OR ABANDONED HUNDREDS OF LAWSUITS AGAINST ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS, MIGRANTS: REPORTHours after the lawsuit was filed, U.S. District Judge April Perry ordered Boutros and three of his assistant attorneys to testify under oath on Nov. 16 in the failed “Broadview Six” case.”There is more than an adequate factual basis for the Court to pursue an inquiry as to whether willful false statements were made to the court,” Perry wrote in the order.Federal prosecutors brought charges against roughly 30 protesters during the federal immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz, but many of those charges have since been dropped or dismissed.DePodesta’s lawsuit alleges that Boutros faced pressure from the DOJ throughout the immigration crackdown to slap protesters with felony charges.”Boutros sent DePodesta emails demanding that DePodesta open FBI investigations into individuals with political views or affiliations in opposition to the Trump administration,” DePodesta’s attorneys wrote in the complaint.Boutros often pressured assistant U.S. attorneys to press charges “before investigating the objective evidence,” according to the lawsuit, which says he wanted felony charges when assistant U.S. attorneys “favored misdemeanors or no charges at all.”Last October, Boutros charged six people with conspiring to obstruct a federal officer, a felony, in connection with their actions during a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.Grand jury transcripts later turned over to the court showed that grand jurors twice declined to indict the six people as prosecutors sought charges, according to The Associated Press. Boutros dropped all charges against the six people in May as the court moved to investigate possible prosecutorial misconduct.Boutros “repeatedly complained to his superiors in Washington” that the failure was DePodesta’s fault “to deflect attention from his own malfeasance,” DePodesta’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.DePodesta denied Boutros’ claims to his superiors at the FBI, and they conceded that he was only being forced out of his job due to the “political pressure Boutros created,” according to the suit.The complaint alleges Boutros told DOJ leadership that DePodesta and his sister-in-law, Nancy DePodesta, who is an attorney representing one of the six former defendants, “conspired to destroy” the case.PRITZKER CALLS FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO ICE AGENTS OVER ‘MIDWAY BLITZ’ CONDUCT”There is no one at the FBI who took their oath of office and their ethical and moral responsibilities more seriously than Doug,” Nancy DePodesta said in a statement to The Associated Press, adding that it is “both heartbreaking and shameful that he was forced out of his position based on what appear to be utterly false rumors spread by” Boutros.In September, one of the prosecutors on the “Broadview Six” case abruptly resigned, writing in a resignation letter that Boutros had “scapegoated and publicly vilified” her. She filed a motion asking the court to treat her as an independent party moving forward.The former defendants have asked the judge to appoint a special counsel to probe possible misconduct by prosecutors. At an Oct. 1 hearing, Perry ordered further “fact-finding” about communications between Boutros’ office and DOJ leadership.Boutros has previously denied that politics played a role in charging decisions.Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ for comment.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Watch: King Charles Shows Rare Flash Of Anger After Being Left Soaking Wet In Antigua

King Charles was royally ticked off after being left soaking wet in a tropical downpour during a visit to Antigua.

Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla, who is holding an umbrella, stand together on the day of the country’s annual Independence Parade at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, November 1, 2026. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/Pool

The 77-year-old monarch showed a rare flash of anger as rain came pouring down during a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Antigua and Barbuda’s independence.The soggy spectacle unfolded at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, where Charles and Camilla had arrived for a military parade.As the skies opened up, the King found himself standing in the pouring rain without an umbrella, and he wasn’t exactly amused.Footage captured an increasingly irritated Charles throwing his arms into the air, turning toward his aides and repeatedly demanding, “Where’s the umbrella?”King Charles is not amused as torrential rain leaves him soaked through during a ceremony in Antigua on his Caribbean tour.The King is drenched by rain after waiting over a minute longer than the Queen for an umbrella.🔗 https://t.co/UEvXKSRozc pic.twitter.com/HCyMhVBZ24— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 2, 2026At one point, the frustrated monarch even appeared to mime holding an umbrella, seemingly trying to make his request impossible to misunderstand.Charles eventually got his umbrella and carried on with the ceremony, inspecting military personnel despite the soaking.Fortunately for the royal entourage, the downpour lasted only about five minutes before the skies cleared.The King apparently wasn’t one to hold a grudge, later cracking a joke to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne about his drenched pants.”I’ve started growing watercress on my trousers,” he quipped.Charles is in the Caribbean to shore up ties with former British colonies, several of which have demanded reparations for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/03/2026 – 02:40

The U.S. military attacked Iran’s Qeshm Island, according to reports.