Iran Might Purge Its Intelligence and Counterintelligence Community
Iran Might Purge Its Intelligence and Counterintelligence Community BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,023, May 13, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mohsen Rezaee, a high-ranking official of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has admitted that top-secret Iranian nuclear documents were stolen in a raid of a Tehran warehouse by Israeli operatives in 2018—a raid the regime had denied ever occurred. Rezaee is calling for a purge of the Iranian intelligence and counterintelligence community, which could result in Iranian intelligence operatives fleeing the country or dying in “accidents.” The history o...