Mossad's Raid in Tehran, 2018

September 19, 2025 00:35:32
Mossad's Raid in Tehran, 2018
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Mossad's Raid in Tehran, 2018

Sep 19 2025 | 00:35:32

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Show Notes

In January 2018, Mossad operatives infiltrated a secret warehouse in Tehran, Iran, broke into dozens of massive safes, and in just under seven hours extracted more than one hundred thousand documents and over half a ton of material detailing Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program. The raid, code-named Operation Stealing the Reality, was the result of two years of planning. In this episode, John Spencer speaks with Yossi Cohen, the former director of Mossad who led the organization through this extraordinary urban operation. Their conversation reveals the extraordinary detail, preparation, and risk behind a raid that changed history.

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