Israel’s Mossad has sufficient knowledge of the location of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles and could intervene if Tehran attempts to use them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday citing unnamed sources.
Iran had 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60% before the Israeli and US airstrikes in June, according to the UN nuclear watchdog.
While the international community has been pressing Iran to disclose the whereabouts of the near weapons-grade stocks, The Jerusalem Post says Mossad knows their location and could intervene if Tehran tried to make any new dangerous moves with the uranium.
On Thursday, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi acknowledged that Iran’s inventory of highly enriched uranium is buried under rubble following the strikes.
Araghchi’s comments came after the UN nuclear watchdog warned that Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium is “a matter of serious concern,” saying the agency has no visibility country’s activities since the June strikes on its nuclear facilities.
However, unnamed Israeli defense officials cited by the Jerusalem post believe that even if Iran immediately began rebuilding the bombed components of its nuclear program, it would take roughly two years before it could attempt to produce a nuclear weapon.
Female Mossad agents in Iran
Dozens of female Mossad agents were deployed inside Iran during Israel’s June strikes on Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs, The Jerusalem Post report said citing unnamed sources.
The report added Mossad Director David Barnea viewed the women’s role during the 12-day conflict as “very substantial.”
While their exact activities remain classified, the Post said that the spy agency has increasingly assigned women to all types of missions, from surveillance to kinetic operations.
The report added that Barnea sent hundreds of agents, including Iranian dissidents recruited by Mossad, into operations in Iran simultaneously. Targets included radar platforms, ballistic missiles, and sites struck by Israeli jets.
Javad Mortazavi, who ran a marriage registration office in Behbahan, was in a temporary marriage with his secretary for several years before she married another man.
After her marriage, Mortazavi invited the husband to his office, laced his drink with sedatives, and fatally stabbed him in March 2023, HRANA said.
The cleric was put to death in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz.
In a 2023 report, Iranian newspaper Etemad said that Mortazavi had invited the woman’s husband to his office under the pretext of handing over a marriage certificate and killed him by poisoning his coffee.
The report said another account suggested he first drugged the man unconscious and then stabbed him to death on a street in Behbahan.
Some reports claimed Mortazavi even led the funeral prayer over the body before burying the victim in a deserted area, according to Etemad.
At least 818 people, including 21 women, have been executed in Iran this year in Iran according to HRANA.
Iran accounted for 64% of all known global executions in 2024, with at least 972 people executed, according to Amnesty International.
The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said it had reopened inquiries into decades-old land transfers involving national property. Tasnim, a news outlet affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, said the cases concern valuable land originally allocated under “olive cultivation” and “orchard development” schemes.
In one case, Tasnim reported, 15 hectares of land in the Lalan area of Shemiranat were sold at a discounted price of 150 million rials (about $150 in today’s rate) on instalments to a company described as belonging to a “well-known figure.”
The outlet said no payments were made, and the property lies within an environmentally protected zone where sales were prohibited.
In another case, ILNA news agency said 80 hectares in the Cheshmeh Magasi area of Damavand were transferred at half price to a buyer under a “fodder cultivation” project allegedly backed by a state official.
No crops were planted, the report said, and after legal challenges the contract was annulled and converted into a lease. Subsequent rulings ordered the Ministry of Agriculture to reimburse the buyer at market value plus expenses.
The Cheshmeh Magasi region has also been the focus of a long-running land dispute involving the Kayhan newspaper, which operates under the supervision of Iran’s Supreme Leader.
In early 2024, local media reported the newspaper had not returned 200 hectares of land allocated in the 1990s for “tree planting and livestock farming” despite a court ruling. Kayhan rejected the allegations at the time, calling them politically motivated.
“The annual conference is an important opportunity to present our positions and explain the unlawful measures that have targeted our nuclear industry,” Eslami told state television before leaving Tehran to attend the 69th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
He said Iran would use the platform to introduce “a clear and transparent narrative” of recent events and to stress what he described as the IAEA’s inaction against such incidents.
Eslami said the trip would include multilateral meetings with various countries and that Tehran had prepared a resolution for the conference “to condemn attacks on nuclear facilities and ensure this issue is formally raised.”
Supreme National Security Council statement
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) also issued a statement on the recent arrangement signed in Cairo between Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, setting out principles for future cooperation.
The council said the text “was reviewed in the nuclear committee of the SNSC and corresponds with what was approved there.” The committee, composed of senior officials from relevant institutions, has been authorized to decide on nuclear issues, it added.
On facilities attacked by Israel and the United States in June, the SNSC said Iran would first provide its own report after obtaining the view of the Supreme National Security Council and then negotiate with the agency on implementation methods.
Any action, it added, “must be approved by the Supreme National Security Council.”
The statement emphasized that “if any hostile action is taken against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear facilities, including the reinstatement of previously closed Security Council resolutions, the implementation of these arrangements will be halted.”
The remarks come as Britain, France and Germany push ahead with a “snapback” process to restore UN sanctions on Iran unless inspections resume and missing uranium is accounted for. Sanctions will automatically return by late September unless the UN Security Council votes otherwise.
Araghchi has warned the European powers that pursuing the mechanism would mean they “lose everything,” and Tehran has made clear that the new cooperation framework with the IAEA is conditional on no further hostile action.
The IAEA reported this month that Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% reached 440.9 kilograms before the June airstrikes. Grossi said the Cairo deal covers all declared facilities, including those bombed, and aims to re-establish inspections once technical procedures are agreed.
Eslami said Iran would use the Vienna conference “to highlight that our rights and concerns have been recognized and to reaffirm that cooperation will proceed in a way fully consistent with our national legislation.”
