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Mossad Abducted, Interrogated, Killed Iranian General in Search for Ron Arad
The investigation says Mossad interrogated Saberi for weeks over Ron Arad and killed him after he gave no useful information, former officials said.
- The Mossad abducted former Iranian deputy defense minister Ali Reza Asgari in Turkey and Iranian Gen. Abdullah Saberi in Syria to interrogate them about Israeli Air Force navigator Ron Arad's disappearance, according to a New York Times investigation published Sunday.
- For decades, the Mossad pursued the theory that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps held Arad, driving Israel to seek the truth about the navigator's 1986 disappearance in Lebanon.
- Asgari was interrogated aboard a vessel and killed after questioning failed to yield evidence, while Saberi was abducted in Damascus, taken to Israel for questioning, and later abandoned on a street in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Current Israeli intelligence assessments now conclude Arad was never held in Iran and likely died in 1988 in the Lebanese village of Nabi Chit, contradicting decades of earlier theories.
- Despite recent unsuccessful raids in Nabi Chit, officials acknowledge earlier assessments relied on confirmation bias, with former IDF missing-persons head Avi Kalo describing the failed search as a 'collective blind spot.
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Mossad agents abducted and interrogated Iranian generals in hunt for Ron Arad
A New York Times investigation details secret interrogations driven by the belief that Iran held the missing navigator, while an Iran-Hezbollah report concluded he died in Lebanon in 1988
·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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Report: Israel kidnapped and interrogated Iranian generals in search for Ron Arad
New York Times investigation says one general was allegedly killed and his body dumped in the Black Sea, despite repeated intelligence warnings that Iran never held the missing airman; investigators now believe he died in a Lebanese village in 1988
·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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During an investigation aimed at uncovering the fate of an officer kidnapped in the 1980s, Israeli intelligence allegedly kidnapped a high-ranking Iranian official, tortured him, and dumped his body in the Mediterranean Sea, the New York Times reports.
·Poland
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