Mossad chief David Barnea said Tuesday that Israel’s covert and military efforts targeting Iran will continue until what he called the “extremist regime” in Tehran is overthrown.
Addressing a national Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, Barnea portrayed the shadow conflict as a long-term, generational struggle rather than a set of isolated confrontations. He stressed that Israel’s security approach was never intended to deliver a quick outcome, but instead to sustain ongoing pressure aimed at countering what he described as an existential threat.
He said: “We anticipated that our campaign would continue after the strikes on Tehran would end, and prepared for this. Our commitment will only be complete once this extremist regime is replaced.”
i24news reports: Barnea clarified that recent Israeli strikes in the heart of the Iranian capital were only one component of a broader, persistent doctrine aimed at containing and eventually ending the current Iranian leadership.
“Our commitment will not be fulfilled until this regime, which calls for our destruction, has disappeared,” Barnea stated, asserting that Israel will no longer remain passive in the face of Tehran’s regional aggression.
The Mossad chief explicitly linked modern intelligence operations to the historical lessons of the Holocaust. Invoking the principle of “Never Again,” Barnea argued that the Jewish state is morally and strategically compelled to take preventive action to stop any declared enemy from attempting a second annihilation of the Jewish people.