Israeli Officials Accuse US Vice President JD Vance of Leaking Mossad’s Iran Regime-Change Plan
Hebrew media have reported that some Israeli regime officials have accused JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, of revealing a confidential Mossad plan aimed at changing the regime in Iran; an allegation that his close associates vehemently deny.
The Maariv newspaper wrote that according to these officials, Vance disclosed the plan to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey, which led to its failure. So far, Vance has not officially commented on the matter, but his associates have labeled this claim as baseless.
According to the same report, Mossad had devised a program to change the Iranian regime by activating Kurdish armed forces. It is said that Donald Trump, the President of the United States, used his veto power to prevent the implementation of this plan.
Channel 12 of Israeli television also reported that Mossad allocated a budget of around one billion shekels and a team of hundreds for this project, but the outcome was assessed as “highly disappointing.” According to two informed sources, Mossad’s deputy, identified only by the initial “A,” received this budget and operational team about a year ago.
Further reports indicate that the New York Times had previously written that Benjamin Netanyahu, relying on Mossad’s optimistic assessments about the likelihood of protests in Iran, had tried to convince Trump that overthrowing the Iranian regime was a realistic option. The paper added that Netanyahu expressed dissatisfaction with the possibility of ending the war while the Mossad operation had not achieved its goals.
In recent months, internal exchanges of accusations within the Israeli regime have intensified, with some blaming Mossad for failing to fulfill its predictions regarding the fall of the Iranian regime; predictions that emerged following joint US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
The Jerusalem Post, citing former Mossad officials, also reported that Washington sought a plan during recent conflicts to advance its objectives without deploying American troops, by providing military support to the Kurds and encouraging them to undertake ground actions; a plan that was ultimately halted. Earlier, some media outlets had reported plans to destabilize Iran’s borders, which faced opposition from regional officials.
On March 4 last year, Trump told Reuters that he supported the start of Kurdish military operations inside Iran. In contrast, Joe Kent, a former Trump administration official who resigned in protest against the war on Iran, stated that the US President was “deceived by the notion” that arming the Kurds could lead to the fall of the Iranian government.
The Jerusalem Post wrote that the Israeli regime was ready to cooperate with this plan, with the Kurds receiving weapons from the US and Mossad and being trained by Israeli forces. However, informed sources said that much of these weapons were confiscated arms from Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon; a matter that has reignited debates about Mossad’s management methods and the results of its extraterritorial operations within the regime.
