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Israel’s Mossad Names Iranian Terror Operative Behind Global Antisemitic Attacks
The Mossad stated on Oct. 26, 2025, that Iranian operative Sardar Amar was behind antisemitic attacks in Australia and European countries. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister’s Office
Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad has revealed that an Iranian commander directed multiple foiled attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide over the past two years, exposing what it described as Iran’s campaign of global terrorism.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Sunday released a statement on behalf of the Mossad identifying Sardar Amar — a senior figure in the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a powerful Iranian military force and internationally designated terrorist organization — as the man responsible for overseeing and coordinating the thwarted plots.
“Amidst the Iranian regime’s persistent attempts to promote terrorism against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide, the Mossad is revealing new details for the first time about those responsible for major attempted attacks thwarted in Australia, Greece, and Germany in 2024-2025,” the statement read.
“Since the events of Oct. 7, Iran has expanded its efforts to target Israeli and Jewish interests worldwide,” the statement continued, referring to Iran-backed Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel. “Thanks to intensive operations by the Mossad, together with intelligence and security agencies in Israel and around the world, dozens of attack channels promoted by Iran have been thwarted. These counter-terrorism operations have saved many lives and enabled investigative and legal steps to be taken against those involved in terrorism.”
The Mossad explained that “one of the prominent mechanisms now being exposed for the first time is that of Sardar Amar, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guard, who heads Corps 11,000 under the command of Ismail Qa’ani, commander of the Quds Force.”
Under Amar’s command, according to Israel, “a significant mechanism was established to promote attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets both in Israel and abroad. This mechanism is directly responsible for the attempted attacks exposed in Greece, Australia, and Germany in the past year alone, and its numerous failures led to the wave of arrests and its exposure.”
The Mossad noted some of the diplomatic consequences that Iran has faced for its aggression, including the expulsion of its ambassador from Australia and the summoning of its top diplomat in Germany for reprimand.
“These unprecedented steps are intended to send a clear message of zero tolerance for terrorist activity on their soil,” the statement continued.
In August, Australia announced that Iran had orchestrated two antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, targeting a kosher restaurant and a synagogue, respectively.
The Algemeiner has reported extensively on the antisemitic crime wave in Australia over the past year and officials’ suspicions of its foreign origins.
In January, Australia Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw said his investigators had determined that “criminals-for-hire may be behind some incidents.” He said that his team had then reviewed “whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs” and that “we are looking at if — or how — they have been paid, for example in cryptocurrency, which can take longer to identify.”
On Aug. 27, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke described the terrorism methodology in an interview, saying that “you have a series of intermediaries so that people performing different actions don’t in fact know who is directing them or don’t necessarily know who is directing them.”
The Mossad explained that Iran has used terrorism for years to target Israelis and Jews abroad.
“For years, the Iranian regime has viewed terrorism as a tool to exact a price from Israel by harming innocent people worldwide, without paying military, diplomatic, or economic costs,” the agency said in its statement. “Under this logic, the terrorist bodies operate while maintaining plausible deniability and a separation between the violent activity and Iran. The first-time exposure of Sardar Amar’s attack mechanism as being behind the attempted attacks in Greece, Germany, and Australia proves the failed management of the mechanism in its efforts and undermines the Iranian attempts to operate covertly, beneath the radar.”
The United Kingdom also spoke out this month about the severity of the Iranian espionage threat. On Oct. 16, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum revealed a 35 percent increase in individuals investigated for foreign spy penetration, naming Russia and Iran as behind them, with some of the plots uncovered as “potentially lethal.”
On Oct. 20, Russia announced its intent to continue strengthening ties with Iran, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov proclaiming that the country is “definitely ready to expand cooperation with Iran in all areas. Iran is our partner, and our relations are developing very dynamically.”
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Lebanon Plans UN Complaint Against Israel Over Border Wall
A UN vehicle drives near a concrete wall along Lebanon’s southern border which, according to the Lebanese presidency, extends beyond the “Blue Line”, a U.N.-mapped line separating Lebanon from Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, as seen from northern Israel, November 16, 2025. REUTERS/Shir Torem
Lebanon will file a complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israel for constructing a concrete wall along Lebanon’s southern border that extends beyond the “Blue Line,” the Lebanese presidency said on Saturday.
The Blue Line is a U.N.-mapped line separating Lebanon from Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israeli forces withdrew to the Blue Line when they left south Lebanon in 2000.
A spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general, Stephane Dujarric, said on Friday the wall has made more than 4,000 square meters (nearly an acre) of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the local population.
The Lebanese presidency echoed his remarks, saying in a statement that Israel’s ongoing construction constituted “a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 and an infringement on Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Dujarric said the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had requested that the wall be removed.
An Israeli military spokesperson denied on Friday that the wall crossed the Blue Line.
“The wall is part of a broader IDF plan whose construction began in 2022,” the spokesperson said, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
“Since the start of the war, and as part of lessons learned from it, the IDF has been advancing a series of measures, including reinforcing the physical barrier along the northern border.”
UNIFIL, established in 1978, operates between the Litani River in the north and the Blue Line in the south. The mission has more than 10,000 troops from 50 countries and about 800 civilian staff, according to its website.
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Iran Says US Is Not Ready for ‘Equal and Fair’ Nuclear Talks
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi speaks during a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Tehran, Iran, July 12, 2025. Photo: Hamid Forootan/Iranian Foreign Ministry/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
Washington’s current approach toward Tehran does not indicate any readiness for “equal and fair negotiations,” Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday, after US President Donald Trump hinted last week at potential discussions.
Following Israel’s attack on Iran in June, which was joined by U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, attempts at renewing dialogue on Tehran’s nuclear program have failed.
The United States, its European allies and Israel accuse Tehran of using its nuclear program as a veil for efforts to develop the capability to produce weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran and Washington underwent five rounds of indirect nuclear talks prior to the 12-days-war, but faced obstacles such as the issue of domestic uranium enrichment, which the U.S. wants Iran to forego.
“The U.S. cannot expect to gain what it couldn’t in war through negotiations,” Abbas Araqchi said during a Tehran conference named “international law under assault.”
“Iran will always be prepared to engage in diplomacy, but not negotiations meant for dictation,” he added.
During the same conference, deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh accused Washington of pursuing its wartime goals with “negotiations as a show.”
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Israeli Government Decides ‘Independent’ Commission to Investigate Oct. 7 Failures
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
i24 News – The Israeli government has approved the creation of an “independent” commission of inquiry to examine the failures that enabled the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023.
However, in a move sharply criticized by the opposition and contrary to the recommendation of the Supreme Court, the panel will not be a formal state commission of inquiry. Instead, its mandate, authorities, and scope will be determined directly by government ministers.
According to the decision, the commission will receive full investigative powers and must be composed in a way that ensures “the broadest possible public trust.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form a special ministerial committee tasked with defining what the inquiry may investigate, the time periods to be reviewed, and the authority it will receive. The committee has 45 days to deliver its recommendations.
For the past year, the government has repeatedly resisted calls to establish a state commission, arguing at first that such a body could not operate during wartime. Later, some ministers accused Supreme Court President Isaac Amit of being incapable of appointing an impartial chairperson.
But on October 15, the High Court of Justice ruled that there was “no substantive argument” against forming a state commission, giving the government 30 days to respond.
Netanyahu maintains that responsibility for the October 7 failures lies primarily with Israel’s security agencies rather than with political leaders.
His critics accuse him of creating a weaker, government-controlled inquiry designed to limit scrutiny of his decisions, undermining the prospect of full accountability for the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.