Israel: IDF and Mossad Oppose the Iran Deal
The vast majority of senior officials in the Israeli military (IDF) and the Mossad oppose the new nuclear agreement with Iran, which they consider insufficient given the current balance of power, the sacrifices made, and the threats facing Israel, the Jerusalem Post has learned.Although this position is not entirely unanimous, and senior Israeli officials understand the need to defer to the country’s political leadership and to the Trump administration on certain matters, the opposition is nearly unanimous, and those officials are making their views known in private forums.
While the Trump administration has focused almost exclusively on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and on the nuclear issue, the Post understands that IDF and Mossad officials had hoped for progress on ballistic missiles and the threats posed by Iran‑backed militias—issues they confront daily and year after year.
However, these matters were excluded from the agreement.
Furthermore, many Mossad officials — and some within the IDF — believed it was essential to keep Iran under sanctions until the Islamic regime fundamentally changed its posture toward Israel, or even until it collapsed.
Some Mossad officials, though fewer within the IDF, even believed that the Islamic regime would likely have fallen within the year if financial sanctions had been maintained, given that the country has lost more than $300 billion due to bombings and continues to lose enormous sums every day since the United States imposed a counter‑blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Post.
These officials believed that even if Iran had withstood financial sanctions from 2018 to 2026, the combination of new pressures — the damage suffered by the regime during the 2026 war, along with the Hormuz blockade — would have finally pushed Iranians past the threshold, making them willing and able to topple the regime.
In light of the billions of dollars expected to flow to the regime once the new agreement is signed, many IDF and Mossad officials now fear that any prospect of regime change will be pushed far beyond the coming year, missing a unique opportunity to make Israel — and the world — safer for generations.
By: Yonah Jeremy Bob
The Jerusalem Post
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