There is something deeply disorienting about an intelligence service addressing a foreign population in the middle of live unrest, in their own language, telling them to take to the streets, and then casually implying it is there among them. Long subjected to external pressure — most notably U.S. sanctions, reimposed and intensified through the September 2025 UN snapback mechanism and widely recognized as the primary driver of the currency crisis — and facing documented efforts at Israeli infiltration aimed at destabilizing the regime, Iranian authorities recognized Mossad’s unusually overt Farsi message for what it was: further confirmation of foreign incitement and active penetration. Rima Najjar is a Palestinian whose father’s side of the family comes from the forcibly depopulated village of Lifta on the western outskirts of Jerusalem and whose mother’s side of the family is from Ijzim, south of Haifa.
Author: Rima Najjar
Published at: 2026-01-13 23:01:01
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