https://www.scmp.com/rss/523196/feed Mossad: The national intelligence agency of the State of Israel, headquartered in Tel Aviv. Established in 1949, its primary mission is to ensure Israel’s security through intelligence collection, covert operations, and counter-terrorism activities beyond its borders. One of the world's largest espionage agencies, the Mossad's work include foiling threats involving advanced weaponry, neutralising terror threats against Israeli and Jewish targets abroad, and fostering covert diplomatic ties and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters The United Arab Emirates’ foreign ministry denied on Wednesday a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office that he visited the country and held a secret meeting with its president. The Israeli Prime Minister’s ‌Office said earlier he travelled to the UAE during the war with Iran and met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. A statement by the Emirati foreign ministry said that Emirati relations with Israel “are public” and “not based on non-transparent or unofficial... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3353479/israels-netanyahu-made-secret-visit-uae-during-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3353479/israels-netanyahu-made-secret-visit-uae-during-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 May 2026 18:30:55 +0000 Agencies Agencies Sweden’s foreign minister on Wednesday said that Iran had executed a Swedish citizen, after Iranian authorities announced the first execution of a man convicted of spying since the start of its war against Israel and the United States. “It is with dismay that I have received information that a Swedish citizen was executed in Iran earlier today,” Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said in a statement. Since the man’s arrest during in June 2025, Sweden had “repeatedly raised the case at... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3347042/iran-announces-first-spy-execution-war-israel-us-began?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3347042/iran-announces-first-spy-execution-war-israel-us-began?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:16:52 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse With further negotiations pencilled in with the US and perhaps assuming that any assassination attempt would take place at night, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was at his complex in Tehran last Saturday morning. It would be his last. An air strike obliterated the compound in Tehran where a gathering of key decision-makers was taking place, killing Khamenei, his wife and other top officials. As the US and Israel have pounded Iran with thousands of attacks over the last week, some details... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3345838/iran-war-what-we-know-about-ali-khameneis-killing-one-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3345838/iran-war-what-we-know-about-ali-khameneis-killing-one-week?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:48:02 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Iran executed a man convicted of spying for the Israeli intelligence and army on Saturday, state media reported. State TV identified the executed man as Aghil Keshavarz, saying he had “close intelligence cooperation” with Mossad and took photos of Iranian military and security areas. Keshavarz was arrested while taking pictures of a military headquarters in the northwestern city of Urmia, some 600km (370 miles) northwest of the capital Tehran in May. He was accused of carrying out more than 200... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3337168/iran-executes-man-israeli-spy-rights-group-says-confession-extracted-under-torture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3337168/iran-executes-man-israeli-spy-rights-group-says-confession-extracted-under-torture?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:57:00 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Iran said on Monday it hanged a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest as Tehran carries out its largest wave of executions in decades. Iran identified the executed man as Bahman Choobiasl, whose case was not immediately known in Iranian media reports or to activists monitoring the death penalty in the Islamic Republic. However, the execution came after Iran vowed to confront its enemies after the United Nations reimposed sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme this weekend. Iran... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3327203/iran-hangs-man-accused-being-israeli-spy-after-un-reimposes-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3327203/iran-hangs-man-accused-being-israeli-spy-after-un-reimposes-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:34:15 +0000 Reuters Reuters Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mossad, Iranian state media reported. They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s air war on Iran in June, when it attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3323766/iran-arrests-8-over-suspected-links-israels-attack-mossad-spy-agency?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3323766/iran-arrests-8-over-suspected-links-israels-attack-mossad-spy-agency?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:03:17 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hundreds of retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, have urged US President Donald Trump to pressure their own government to end the war in Gaza. “It is our professional judgment that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel,” the former officials wrote in an open letter shared with the media on Monday. “At first this war was a just war, a defensive war, but when we achieved all military objectives, this war ceased to be a just war,” said... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3320720/ex-israeli-security-officials-urge-trump-pressure-netanyahu-end-gaza-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3320720/ex-israeli-security-officials-urge-trump-pressure-netanyahu-end-gaza-war?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:34:07 +0000 Sylvie Zhuang Sylvie Zhuang Israel’s unprecedented success in infiltrating Iranian intelligence has opened up a “Pandora’s box” of global security threats, Chinese observers have warned, while urging China to tighten all national security measures against any vulnerabilities. According to Chinese military analyst and former air force member Fu Qianshao, one striking feature of the Middle East conflict is the critical role played by Israeli intelligence agents embedded in Iran. Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency reportedly... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3315940/china-warned-watch-security-threats-israeli-spies-iran-open-pandoras-box?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3315940/china-warned-watch-security-threats-israeli-spies-iran-open-pandoras-box?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:26 +0000