Report: Mossad Abducted Iranian Generals to Locate Missing Israeli Airman Ron Arad
New reports detail Mossad operations to abduct and kill Iranian generals in a decades-long search for missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad, revealing intense inter...
POLICY WIRE — Jerusalem, Israel — Multiple Israeli and international media outlets have reported that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency kidnapped Iranian military officials in a high-stakes effort to locate Ron Arad, an Israeli airman who has been missing since 1986.
The reporting indicates that agents specifically targeted Iranian generals, interrogating them during covert operations aimed at extracting information about Arad’s whereabouts.
Among the tactics employed, reports state that one Iranian official was killed following his abduction, with his body reportedly dumped into the Black Sea.
This disclosure highlights the longstanding and intensive measures taken by Israeli intelligence to find the missing pilot, a case that has spanned nearly four decades.
Outlets including The New York Times, Haaretz, The Times of Israel, i24NEWS, and The Jerusalem Post have covered these allegations, detailing the abduction and interrogation processes.
Reporting by Policy-Wire (PW)