Oded Ailam, a former senior Mossad official who served in the organization for twenty-four years, revealed in an interview with the German newspaper Bild that Israel has a “vast” intelligence network operating within Iran. In the interview, which took place last week, Ailam explained how Israel managed to recruit so many agents in the heart of a hostile country despite constant attempts by the Iranian regime to locate and eliminate them. He said that the key to its success lies in the social structure of Iran, which boasts a wide ethnic diversity. Only forty percent of Iran’s ninety million residents are Persians. “This makes it very difficult for the government to control the population,” Ailam said. “The surveillance system has huge gaps.
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