Netanyahu’s Iran Scam BACKFIRES, Mossad Gets PURGED!

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Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu made Iran the defining mission of the man he personally installed at the top of Mossad.

He even said it out loud at this chap Roman Gofman’s appointment.

“This is your mission, Roman.”

Barely nine weeks later, two of the most senior people working on that mission had reportedly been removed from their posts though. One headed Mossad’s Intelligence Directorate. The other ran its Iran Division.

And what had they reportedly been working on?

A written plan to help bring down Iran’s government of course. Another attempt because the riots of last year, of which Mossad was apparently a part of, failed so miserably didn’t they?

Well, guess what? Iran’s government is still standing, isn’t it?

Netanyahu wanted upheaval in Tehran and got it on Mossad’s top floor instead.

But this gets far grubber than just a couple of intelligence chiefs being blamed for a plan that went nowhere. Because, this is Israel of course. The reported scheme involved trying to turn Iranian protests, ethnic minorities and Kurdish armed groups into the moving parts of an Israeli regime-change operation. There was allegedly foreign air power in the plan too. There was even a former Iranian president being lined up for the aftermath.

Or so the reporting claims.

The actual plan has never been published. The officials haven’t been named. Mossad hasn’t officially admitted that any of this happened.

So what are we actually looking at here then? What the hell are you actually making a video of here Damo?

Well, I’ll answer that with a couple of questions first: Did senior Mossad officials seriously believe they could manufacture a new government for more than 90 million Iranians? Is Netanyahu’s handpicked director clearing out an old guard he never trusted? Or are the people underneath Netanyahu simply being made to carry the blame for his latest Iran fantasy going t*ts up?

Possibly all three.

Either way, Tehran hasn’t been remade. Mossad however, very much has.

And Netanyahu, the man who handed down the mission in the first place, remains safely above the consequences it seems. Or has he?

Well, there’s a surprise!

The Iran project failed, senior officials are packing their bags, and Mossad is now claiming this is just routine housekeeping.

Top team out. Brooms and dustpans are ready.

Mossad in disarray, or as they’ll describe it in the next press briefing, ‘dynamic restructuring’, since nothing says ‘we’re in full control’ quite like dismissing half of the staff you had devoted to the matter of Iran.

So Netanyahu’s little Iran adventure has ended up blowing up inside his own intelligence agency.

Now Israel’s Channel 12 first reported this on 6 August, just over two weeks ago, but it’s only now gaining traction since it appeared on Telegram on the 21st, the power of social media you might say, but Channel 12’s account rests on unnamed security sources, so we have to bear that in mind. Mossad has not themselves publicly confirmed the removals, the officials have not been named and no dismissal papers have appeared. Most of the later reporting traces back to that same original Channel 12 account.

So what we have here is a credible, consequential media report given it’s come from a major news source from within Israel, Liberal and not particularly Netanyahu friendly, but Israeli nonetheless, it’s not an official Mossad confession.

And the reason my little explainer there is important is precisely because, within weeks of Netanyahu installing Roman Gofman as Mossad chief, two senior figures on the Iran file were reportedly removed from their posts over a regime-change plan that did not deliver.

There was no subtlety about what Netanyahu expected from Gofman either. He put him in the job, stood beside him in public and told him exactly what his mission was.
Quite the assignment, isn’t it? No pressure, Roman.
Not study Iran. Not monitor Iran. Not provide the government with balanced intelligence about Iran.

This is your mission.

Netanyahu handed Roman Gofman control over one of the biggest political fixations of his entire career: Iran, its nuclear ambitions, its regional alliances, and, above all, Netanyahu’s repeated hope that Tehran’s government could somehow be toppled. All of this is tied heavily to Netanyahu because of his obsession with Iran.

Gofman took charge of Mossad on 2 June.

By 6 August, Channel 12 was reporting that he had dismissed the head of Mossad’s Intelligence Directorate and the head of its Iran Division. In the grand scheme of such things, that’s fast. Blink and you could lose your job fast with the Mossad.

Now, their names have not been made public, no real surprise there I suppose, it is Mossad. The reporting also indicates they may stay within Mossad in other roles and ye tit’s still a bit more than a little reshuffle here. These were hardly junior staff.

One led the intelligence directorate. The other led the literal Iran division, the bit that is now Gofman’s mission. These were the people at the very centre of Mossad’s efforts to understand Iran and direct operations against it.

And the supposed reason for moving them aside is where this story really gets strange.

Channel 12 reported that the two officials helped draft a plan to topple Iran’s government by using minority groups and sparking new mass protests. They worked so well last time, perhaps that’s why they’ve gone! What is not clear though is whether the plan was fully approved, partly tried, or dropped before it got underway. The only certain result is that its goal was not met: Iran’s government stayed in power. So this was a reported regime-change plan, not a proven, fully executed operation.

Therefore we cannot say Mossad launched every part of a huge operation and Iran stopped it all. The reporting does not show that.

What it does show, if Channel 12 is correct, is that regime change was being taken seriously enough inside Mossad that senior officials lost their jobs when it did not happen.

And so this is where last year’s unrest in Iran ends up returning to the story.

Channel 12, as also relayed by the Times of Israel, said the written proposal included encouraging Iranian minorities and renewed mass protests. The National also reported a Kurdish ground campaign backed by Israeli and American air power. None published the alleged plan, so these operational details again remain anonymously sourced claims, not confirmed actions.

That also does not mean every Iranian protester was taking Mossad money, or that every angry crowd was organised in a Tel Aviv office, there were of course genuine protests, genuine grievances, we know the likes of Mossad and the CIA were taking advantage of that to drive them further, it indicates Mossad hoped real unrest inside Iran could be used to serve an Israeli goal.

And for a state that claims so much morality as Israel does, the IDF being the worlds most moral army, there is a huge moral gap between supporting Iranians’ rights and treating them as expendable pieces in a regime-change game.

The protester takes all the risk.

The protester faces the police, the militarised forces of Iran; the Israeli intelligence planners, for the most part at least, were elsewhere.

Then, when the plan fails, the planners get reassigned and everyone starts talking about ‘organisational restructuring’ as if that explains why things fell apart.

But the reported plan this time appears even more ambitious than that. Kurdish forces were supposed to be involved. Israeli and possibly American air power would provide support. Turkey would have to tolerate events near its border, so let’s risk WWIII by trying it on, on the doorstep of a NATO ally for the sake of Netanyahu’s little fantasy. Washington would need to stay interested and involved.

So it relied on Kurdish groups doing what Mossad wanted, Donald Trump sticking to someone else’s long-term plan, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not causing trouble either.

On the face of it, it sounds less like a plan and more like three bar fights and a night out waiting to happen.

Turkey reportedly objected to the Kurdish part, hardly a surprise coming from Turkey. Kurdish groups were wary of being drawn into a plan that could leave them vulnerable, and the Americans did not seem ready to give the support required after Iran had already been handing Trump his citrus orange a*se.

But there is another detail here which is just weird and it’s the alleged involvement of the former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Now, Ahmadinejad was not supposedly being considered as a minor adviser. New York Times reporting relayed by the Times of Israel claimed Mossad hoped to reinstall him as Iran’s leader. As a former president who had since criticized Iran’s ruling elite, he could give an Israeli-backed transition an Iranian face. His office called the entire story fiction, so his relevance is to the alleged goal of the plan, not evidence that he took part.

Someone, somewhere, apparently looked at the former Iranian president and thought, “That’s the new beginning Iran needs.”
Nothing says ‘fresh start’ like searching through the pile of ex-presidents and hoping one is still available who might see things now from your perspective.

Again, his office denied it. No evidence shows he agreed to participate. But the fact that his name reportedly came up in this discussion tells us something about the thinking behind it.

This was not necessarily about letting Iranians decide their own future.

It was about finding a future for Iran that worked for Israel and frankly that is far more believable.

Now we come to Roman Gofman himself in all of this, because his arrival at Mossad is significant.

Gofman was Netanyahu’s military secretary. He was not the insider candidate many in the agency reportedly wanted. Reports said the outgoing director, David Barnea, opposed his appointment and preferred someone from within Mossad.

But Netanyahu picked Gofman anyway, you imagine because he’s the most pro Netanyahu.

But that immediately put an outsider-and, more importantly, Netanyahu’s own close aide-in charge of the agency managing his main obsession.

Then, within days of starting, Gofman reportedly removed Mossad’s deputy director.

A few weeks after that, the Intelligence Directorate chief and the head of the Iran Division were reportedly dismissed as well.

Three senior people were moved aside before Gofman’s business cards were even printed.

Maybe Gofman truly believed a big reorganisation was needed. New directors have the right to pick their teams, and intelligence agencies can fail internally like any other organisation.

But let’s not fool ourselves, completely here either.

When the prime minister appoints his own former military secretary, senior insiders start vanishing, and the public explanation involves a failed regime-change plan, it would be rather naïve to think this is just tidy management.

The Mossad explanation reported in Israeli media was that the changes happened by “mutual agreement”.

Well that’s just the HR bedtime story for adults isn’t it?

One of those phrases organisations use when everyone agrees someone should leave, especially the person who has just been told to pack up and not let the door hit them on the way out.

Nobody was fired. They just mutually agreed to leave the moment the new boss arrived.

Nobody was blamed. Their duties just disappeared into thin air.

Nothing was purged. The agency just got lighter around the Iran department, as if the staff vanished on a sunny day.

Israeli reporting also mentioned tense working relationships from Gofman’s arrival, disagreements over strategy, and a wider reorganisation under the new director. The officials could reportedly stay in Mossad in other roles. So the Iran plan may have been the trigger, part of a broader power struggle, or simply the story given to the press. Mossad will not release the meeting notes, so we cannot honestly say which reason mattered most.

And that secrecy is exactly why the story needs careful attention, not blind certainty.

We have unnamed sources, no public dismissal papers, and an original TV report based on intelligence contacts.

That means sources must be clear.

But secrecy should not be used as an excuse to ignore what several outlets are reporting.

Two senior officials were reportedly removed from the parts of Mossad handling Iran. Their removal was reportedly tied to a regime-change plan that failed or was not carried out. It happened soon after Netanyahu put his own man in charge and told him, in public, that Iran was his mission.

Those facts create a rather troubling picture. Netanyahu demanded results and Mossad appears to have been shaken from the base over it.

The government in Tehran however, have stayed very much in power.

The people below Netanyahu and Gofman have started paying the professional cost.

But if the plan was sound, properly approved, and well supported, why were the people who created it removed?
If it was unrealistic, why was a plan involving protests, minority groups, Kurdish fighters, and foreign air support allowed to become a serious Mossad project?

If it was never really carried out, what exactly are these officials being punished for?

And if parts of it were put into action, what happened on the ground and who suffered the consequences?

Those are reasonable questions to ask aren’t they?

They go to the core of what Israel’s policy toward Iran has really been.

Publicly, Netanyahu talks about security, nuclear weapons, and an Iranian threat to Israel.
Behind that public message, according to this reporting, was something much bigger: a desire to help decide who should rule Iran.

That should worry people far beyond Israel and Iran.

Iran has seen this before. In 1953, the CIA and MI6 helped overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh and brought in the despotic Shah. The Kurds have seen it too. From 1972, Washington and the Shah supported Iraq’s Kurdish rebellion, then withdrew that support when Iran made a border deal with Saddam Hussein in 1975. The rebellion collapsed and tens of thousands fled. That is what regime-change plans do. They turn minorities and real opposition groups into foreign-policy assets, then leave them behind when the deal changes. Worse, they give authoritarian governments the perfect excuse to label every real dissident a foreign agent.

And when the plan fails, the outside planners just leave.

The people living there are left to deal with the mess left behind.

There is also a risk inside Israel itself though.

An intelligence agency is supposed to tell leaders what they need to know, not create the result those leaders already want.

Once the leader’s political obsession becomes the intelligence agency’s task, the danger to Israel should be obvious here. Assessments become promises. Possibilities turn into plans. Doubts are seen as disloyalty.

Then failure comes, as it often does, and suddenly the question is not whether the political demand made sense.

The question becomes which intelligence official should take the blame for not making it happen.
That is how intelligence gets twisted by politics.
Not always by ordering analysts to write a certain line, but by making it clear that careers depend on delivering the world the leader wants to see.

Iran must be on the edge.

Its government must be about to fall.

The minorities must be ready to rise up.

The Americans must be ready to assist.

The regional pieces must be ready to fit together.

And when reality does not cooperate with such a blatant fantasy, you cannot fire reality, so you fire people instead.

People can be fired.

Listen closely to the language that’s been reported.

Not a minor reshuffle after a successful operation.

Senior people connected to the Iran mission reportedly removed after a plan to topple the Iranian government failed or did not proceed.

That’s the fallout. That’s reality.

Not regime change in Tehran.

Change inside Mossad.

Roman Gofman was assigned the mission. Netanyahu made sure everyone saw him do it. Now Gofman is reshaping the agency expected to deliver, while the people who managed Mossad’s Iran intelligence reportedly lose their jobs.

And Iran’s government has not fallen.

The grand plan has not brought the promised change.

The names of those taking the blame have not even been revealed.

And the man who made Iran his personal mission continues as if failure only happens to others, preferably several levels below him.

Netanyahu’s Iran project was meant to unseat Tehran’s leaders. Instead, it has unseated Mossad’s own Iran team. Iran’s government is still in place, Netanyahu’s fixation is still burning away as it has for decades, and Netanyahu himself is still at the top, at least for now. Everyone below? Not as fortunate. So this is not Israeli power reshaping the Middle East. It is a regime-change fantasy bouncing back through the agency told to make it happen, leaving Mossad to clean out its own leadership because Iran refused to cooperate. If I were an Iranian cleric I’d be chuckling with glee right now.

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