Iran's former leader claims secret service division tasked with rooting out Israeli spies had within its ranks 20 who were working as moles and provided nuclear information The post Head of Iranian unit countering Mossad was Israeli agent,

After weeks of daring Israeli attacks on Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Gaza — and even in Iran itself — comments made recently by the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the effect that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency managed to infiltrate even the top echelons of Iran’s intelligence services are drawing increased scrutiny.

Iran has created a unit to counter Israel, the head of which turned out to be a Mossad agent. This was stated by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We created a counter—Israel unit, and its head turned out to be a Mossad agent," Ahmadinejad said, quoted by Haberler.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has claimed that the head of the secret unit, tasked with targetting Mossad agents working in Iran, was himself an Israeli spy. In an interview to CNN Turk,

In a stunning revelation, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the head of an Iranian intelligence unit established to target Mossad agents was himself an Israeli double agent.