Tehran, November 08: The Israeli spy agency, Mossad, is decentralizing by spreading its operational and espionage centers to several Asian countries, a report says.
The report leaked from some diplomatic circles said Tel Aviv had taken the decision after coming under several retaliatory attacks by the Iranian intelligence services, Fars News Agency reported on Monday.
The decision also came after Iran arrested a number of terrorists operating for ‘the Zionist regime of Israel’ and revealed some of Tel Aviv’s anti-Iran intelligence strategies.
Ali Jamali-Fashi, the man who killed Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, near his home in northern Tehran on January 12, 2010, admitted in a court in Iran that he had made numerous visits to Turkey to meet Mossad agents prior to the assassination attempt.
Israel has thus been forced to transfer its espionage offices to several other countries such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Georgia, the report said.
According to well-informed sources, the Israeli Embassy in Turkmenistan, which was opened under the US pressure, is a guise for Tel Aviv’s espionage operations.
Israel is reinforcing its espionage centers in Thailand, India, Armenia, and Malaysia, whose governments are not aware of the real nature of the hubs, the report added.
The espionage operations were not merely carried out against Iran, the sources said, adding that some other countries such as Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Tunisia were also among the targets of the Tel Aviv-hired operatives.
Moreover, some experts stated that the waves of Islamic Awakening, which have been sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, have also been among the reasons behind the rearrangement.
——Agencies