Mossad thanks CIA for assist with Operation Rising Lion — RT World Information
Israel’s intelligence company Mossad has thanked the CIA for its shut cooperation throughout assaults on Iran, days after a US-brokered ceasefire got here into impact.
“I additionally want to specific my gratitude and appreciation to our key associate – the CIA – for the joint motion and the operations that had been efficiently carried out, in addition to to its director, who supported the Mossad in making the precise selections,” Mossad Director David Barnea mentioned in a press release on Wednesday, as quoted by AFP.
Israeli brokers reportedly smuggled drones into Iran, which had been then used to assassinate senior commanders and nuclear scientists as a part of Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the assaults, accompanied by airstrikes throughout Iran, had been geared toward stopping the nation from buying nuclear weapons.
The US joined the strikes on June 22, concentrating on three nuclear websites, together with an underground uranium enrichment heart in Fordow.
“The Iranian menace, which has endangered our safety for many years, has been considerably neutralized,” Barnea mentioned. “We’ll proceed to maintain a watchful eye on all recognized Iranian initiatives – we’re intimately accustomed to them – and we will likely be there, simply as we have now been till now.”
In a separate assertion on Wednesday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe mentioned the strikes had “severely broken” Iran’s nuclear program. A number of US media retailers, nevertheless, cited an evaluation by the Pentagon’s intelligence company that the assault had solely managed to delay Iranian nuclear actions by months.
Iran, which denies having a navy nuclear program, has condemned the assaults as unprovoked and responded by firing missiles at Israeli cities and launching a barrage on the US air base in Qatar. Tehran additionally vowed to proceed uranium enrichment.
The ceasefire brokered by Washington got here into impact on Tuesday and has thus far been upheld.
