Israel’s Mossad Names Iranian Terror Operative Behind Global Antisemitic Attacks

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.”