An Iranian national, who worked with Mossad to set up a weapons system to destroy a ballistic missile launcher aimed towards Israel during the night between June 12 and 13, 2025, described the mission in an interview with Ilana Dayan on Channel 12's Uvda, broadcast on January 29.
The interview occurred in the fall of 2025, Channel 12 noted on their N12 News website.
The Mossad agent, identified by the pseudonym "Arash," described himself as "Mossad's eyes" during the mission, which took place at the start of the Israel-Iran war, shortly following the IDF's launching of Operation Rising Lion last year.
"Our mission was to take a special and specific weapon, and assemble everything together, being ready to launch," Arash recounted, noting how he and his team prepared the weapons system.
"When I was training in Israel, I could assemble everything in less than an hour, and there [in Iran,] it took around one hour and forty minutes," he noted.
Dayan probed, noting the longer length of time within Iran, leading Arash to explain that he had to pause when he noticed vehicles coming towards him.
"I didn't know about our target, just...we got coordinates," he recounted.
He also noted how he was in touch with Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv throughout the mission. "I was Mossad's eyes inside this mission," he told Dayan.
"Everything was ready. [In order] to finish the job, I just had to push a button and get out of there. I was waiting over two hours until I received the order to launch. It was terrible. I was scared about everything," he recalled.
The broadcast noted that the mission launched at nearly 3 a.m.
"We had just one chance to launch. I said, 'Okay, let's do it.' When we launched the missiles, because the missiles had a camera, I could see our target - a rocket launcher ready to shoot ballistic missiles to Israel. We destroyed it," he said.
Arash noted how he told HQ that he and his team "did our job."
"Yes, you did," he was told, after which, he noted how he wanted to shout, "Yes, we did!"
"We wanted to celebrate inside [that] area, but [had to keep] 'everything under control.' We had to arrange everything and [return safely] to the safe house," he clarified.
Iranian-born 'Arash' served in Iranian military, studied at university in the Islamic Republic
Arash was born in Iran and is about 40 years old. He served in the Iranian military and studied at a university in Iran, N12 noted.
"When I was 11, one night my sister didn't come home. It was a terrible night for us," he recalled. That evening resulted in Arash and his parents going to a police station, finding out that his sister had been arrested and beaten for removing her hijab, he claimed.
Arash's parents managed to release his sister from custody, later abandoning Iran and emigrating to the West, but he was traumatized by this encounter with the Islamic Republic's regime.
"As I grew older, I realized that without help, I would achieve nothing," he stated. When he was 30-years-old, he found himself in front of a computer and decided to make contact with Mossad via an internet search, the report noted.
"I opened the page to send a message, and in that very second when I wanted to send it, it was a very difficult decision for me," he recalled.
"Did you realize that you crossed the line...committed to the number one enemy of your country?" Dayan asked him.
"No, wait, stop. When you say Iran, you're talking about my country, my people, not the regime. [Mossad] is not the enemy of my country, it's the enemy of my enemy," he retorted.