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Israel-Iran covert conflict
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In late June 2026 Israel’s newly appointed Mossad director, director Roman Gofman, traveled Gofman travelled to Washington for secret talks with CIA Director John Ratcliffe and senior White House officials. The meetings focused officials, focusing on the ongoing Iran‑Israel confrontation, Tehran’s nuclear programme, programme and coordination of forthcoming planned U.S. air strikes against Iranian targets, strikes, including intelligence on a deep‑underground facility known as site dubbed “Pickaxe Mountain.” By early August, the internal fallout from Israel’s covert campaign against Iran became internal. emerged when Mossad dismissed its intelligence department directorate head and the head of its Iran desk after a failed covert regime‑change plot failed to topple the materialise. The operation, reportedly code‑named “Puss in Boots,” was a joint Mossad‑CIA effort that envisioned Kurdish ground forces entering Iran under extensive Israeli and U.S. air cover, backing from Iranian government—a plan linked to minority groups, and the installation of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a 2024 U.S.–Israel offensive. new leader. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have discussed the scheme with U.S. President Donald Trump. The dismissals were presented as a mutual agreement and part of a broader restructuring, restructuring; the two officials are expected to remain within Mossad in different roles. No official confirmation of the plan has been provided, underscoring both the continued ongoing covert tension with Iran and internal accountability within Israel’s foreign‑intelligence service.
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