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Mossad Shake‑Up Over Aborted Iran Regime‑Change Plan Exposes Strategic Friction With U.S.

Israel’s new Mossad chief has reassigned two senior officials who helped design a plan to topple Iran’s regime by backing Kurdish forces, after the operation was shelved when U.S. officials judged regime change unrealistic. The shake‑up reveals how far some in Israel were willing to go — and how sharply their ambitions collided with Washington’s caution.

A quiet purge at the top of Israel’s Mossad has pulled back the curtain on a covert debate over how far to push against Iran’s government. New agency director Roman Gofman has reassigned two senior officials who helped craft an ambitious plan to foment regime change in Tehran by supporting Kurdish forces, according to Israeli media reports. The plan never moved beyond the drawing board, largely because the United States doubted it could succeed. The reported operation envisioned leveraging Kurdish militants to ignite a broader uprising that would topple Iran’s leadership. Details remain sparse, but the basic concept — exploiting Iran’s ethnic fault lines to destabilize the regime — reflects…

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