TNA Staff
The New Arab / August 11, 2026
“We toured the Fordow nuclear site many times to understand the site,” Yossi Cohen, who led the Mossad between 2015 and 2021, claimed.
A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on Tuesday claims 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 Iran with the stated goal of degrading its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
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.
The US and Israel then jointly launched a war on Iran on 28 February 2026, that still is ongoing, without achieving any of their proclaimed goals.
“We toured the Fordow nuclear site many times to understand the site,” Yossi Cohen, who led the Mossad between 2015 and 2021, claimed during a conference of local authorities on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.
He didn’t elaborate on when exactly the visits took place or who made them, nor provided any further evidence behind the boast.
According to Israeli media, Cohen said “the bombing of the site by the Americans was the fulfilment of all my dreams”.
Iran’s nuclear programme has long been a major point of contention between it and the United States, with Tehran consistently denying it is seeking to produce a nuclear bomb.
Cohen, who is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, played a prominent role during his time in office in achieving US-brokered normalisation deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
Cohen was linked to Israel’s killing in 2020 of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, although Israel has not commented on the incident.
After finishing his term at the helm of the agency, he has remained in the public eye, giving frequent interviews to Israeli media and repeatedly hinting at a possible foray into politics, which has not yet occurred.
