The outgoing chief of Israel s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet that his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran s nuclear program and a military scientist.
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FILE - In this July 3, 2016, file photo, Yossi Cohen, then the director of Israel s Mossad intelligence agency, attends the funeral in Jerusalem of a rabbi killed by Palestinian gunmen. Cohen, the outgoing chief of Israel s Mossad intelligence service, offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind a series of recent attacks targeting Iran s nuclear program and a military scientist in a television interview aired Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File) Credit: The Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The outgoing chief of Israel s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran s nuclear program and a military scientist.
Going against a long-standing practice of secrecy involving spy agency's activities, Cohen describes Israeli effort to dissuade Iranian scientists from taking part in nuclear program, discusses operation to seize thousands of archival documents from Islamic Republic's military atomic program
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