“I’m From the Mossad, and I’m Here to Help”

The Mossad has made an unprecedented move to start communicating to Iranians through public social media, attempting to recruit agents inside Iran from the disaffected and financially desperate.

Israeli-Iranian journalist Menashe Amir, recruited by the Mossad to be the face of their publicity campaign to Iranians.

On June 25, a Farsi-language account, claiming to be a spokesman for the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, began posting on social media. Such accounts claiming to be Mossad or using Mossad iconography on these platforms a…