Mossad's covert Iran mission: Dozens of female agents penetrated the country

The Mossad is poised to intervene if Tehran seems to be trying to use its uranium to move again in the direction of a nuclear weapon.

Dozens of Mossad women penetrated Iran and had boots on the ground, performing a variety of operations during Israel’s attacks on Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs in June, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Critically, the Post has come to understand that Mossad director David Barnea views the role that female Mossad agents played during the Israel-Iran war as very substantial.

While the exact nature of what these women did, exactly, is still classified, in 2024, a senior female Mossad agent, only known as “G” with an Iranian background and special expertise in Iran and in recruiting foreign spies in hostile countries, was honored with lighting a torch in the Independence Day ceremony.

Notably, Michael Bar Zohar’s and Nissim Mishal’s 2021 book The Mossad Amazons described female Mossad agents not only seducing enemy male officials and performing surveillance on Iran’s nuclear sites, but also carrying out kinetic and other attack operations.

While the Mossad does not wish to draw too much attention to any one subgroup of potential spies, the Post’s impression is that the spy agency’s women of 2025 are only doing more of every kind of undercover role as compared to their sisters of yesterday.

As it stands, Barnea sent hundreds of Mossad agents, or individuals being managed by agents, into operations in Iran simultaneously. All of the varying groups of staff were highly coordinated.

The spy chief directed a project that led to a diverse spectrum of agents, encompassing a wide range of operatives and their varied backgrounds, one could imagine.

On top of actual Israeli Mossad agents, the spy service has reached new levels in recruiting and training local dissident Iranian assets to act against the ayatollahs’ regime.

Collectively, the Mossad agents in Tehran targeted large numbers of radar platforms and ballistic missiles. Further, they provided targeting information to Israeli fighter jets for a broad range of other Iranian targets.

The Mossad’s opening shot was so stunningly effective that Iran was only able to counterstrike Israel on the second day of the war.

Mossad has information on the location of Iran's enriched uranium

In addition to new revelations about the critical role of women during the Iran operation, the Post understands that the spy network has a sufficient handle on the location of Iran’s enriched uranium, which was not yet struck. So much so, in fact, that the agency could intervene if Tehran seemed to be trying to use that uranium to move again in the direction of manufacturing a nuclear weapon.

Further, the Mossad will be heavily focusing on the issue until the Islamic Republic allows the IAEA’s nuclear inspectors access to the uranium supply.

During the 12-day war with Iran, Israel destroyed much of its three major nuclear facilities: Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, as well as damaged dozens of other nuclear sites.

However, a major dispute and source of speculation has been that over 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium – close to weapons grade – was not destroyed by Israel during the operation.

In theory, this volume of 60% enriched uranium could be further enriched and used to produce around half a dozen nuclear bombs.

In late June, when the operation first ended, some Israeli critics said that the Islamic Republic could even rush out a nuclear bomb in a matter of months, given that the uranium had not been struck.

In contrast, several Israeli defense officials have told the Post that the soonest Iran could try to produce a nuclear bomb – if it tried now to rebuild all the different bombed pieces of its program needed to do so – would be in around two years.

This is because enriched uranium by itself cannot be used for much.

But the latest revelation – the Mossad could intervene if Tehran tried to make any new, dangerous moves with the uranium- should give the ayatollahs pause.

In fact, one of the conditions that the West has made for Iran to avoid the snapback of global sanctions being imposed on it in around two weeks is for the Islamic Republic to give the IAEA access to the uranium stockpiles.