An explosive interview with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been resurfacing in today’s headlines that reveals a web of deception at the very top of Iran’s intelligence network.

During his 2021 interview with CNN Turk, Ahmadinejad recounted how he became certain that the person in charge of Iran’s intelligence operation was actually working for the Mossad along with at least 20 other agents. Allegedly, these double agents were responsible for a significant number of counterintelligence operations within Iran, including the theft of documents related to the regime’s clandestine nuclear program and the elimination of several top scientists in 2018.

Bound by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s orders to keep internal investigations away from the office of the President, all of the Mossad’s moles were able to flee the country and are now supposedly living in Israel.

Meanwhile, Iran International reports that even more extreme hardliners are going after Mohammad-Javad Zarif, who serves as President Masoud Pezeshkian’s deputy for Strategic Affairs. On the streets, accusations are being made either directly or through thinly veiled allusions to early Islamic history, such as the tale of Ibn Hajjaj.

According to Shiite tradition, Ibn Hajjaj allegedly deceived Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the third Imam of the Shiites, by inviting him to Kufa under the pretense of friendship. However, Ibn Hajjaj then betrayed Hussain and fought against him in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD, which resulted in Hussain’s death.

Like Ibn Hajjaj, Zarif is accused of betraying his own people by somehow assisting Israel in eliminating Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Adding to the speculation of Israeli infiltration, a former adviser to ex-president Hassan Rouhani tells London-based news site Manoto that Khamenei and his cohorts should be now “fearing for their lives” due to how deeply Israel’s spy agency is embedded within the regime’s political hierarchy.