Former Mossad chief reveals Israeli spies 'toured' Iran's Fordow nuclear site multiple times

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed on August 11, 2026, that Israeli spies toured Iran's fortified Fordow nuclear site "many times" to study the facility. Cohen celebrated the June 2025 U.S. airstrikes on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan as the "fulfillment of all my dreams," though Iranian official Behrouz Kamalvandi insisted the strikes caused only limited damage. The revelations come amid ongoing military conflict and stalled diplomatic negotiations between the U.S., Israel, and Iran.

Mossad operations at Fordow

• ▪Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen stated on August 11, 2026, that Israeli intelligence spies had toured Iran's Fordow nuclear site many times in the past to better understand the facility.
• ▪Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen did not elaborate on the exact dates of the intelligence visits to the Fordow nuclear site or identify the individuals who conducted them.

US strikes on Iran

• ▪Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen described the U.S. military bombing of Iran's Fordow nuclear site as the fulfillment of all his dreams.
• ▪Behrouz Kamalvandi stated that the Natanz nuclear enrichment complex was damaged mainly in its above-ground sections, while the Isfahan nuclear complex sustained minor damage with no casualties reported.
• ▪During a 12-day conflict in June 2025, the United States military joined Israel to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities located at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
• ▪Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, stated that the June 2025 U.S. airstrikes caused limited damage to the Fordow enrichment site and that key equipment had been removed beforehand.

Iran nuclear weapons capability

• ▪The government of Iran has consistently denied that it is seeking to produce a nuclear weapon.
• ▪Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen argued at the Galilee Conference on August 11, 2026, that uranium enriched to 60% is still far from a nuclear bomb.

Israel-Iran military conflict

• ▪Israel and the United States launched a military campaign against Iran in February 2026, which remains the subject of ongoing war-ending negotiations.
• ▪Israel launched a war against Iran in June 2025 with the stated goal of degrading Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, which Israel declared an existential threat.

Yossi Cohen political profile

• ▪Yossi Cohen has been linked to the 2020 assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, though Israel has not officially commented on the incident.
• ▪Yossi Cohen, who led the Mossad from 2015 to 2021, played a prominent role in achieving U.S.-brokered normalization agreements under the Abraham Accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco.

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