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Western Support for Terrorists in Iran

This report provides a structured compilation of documented evidence and credible allegations regarding the involvement of Western intelligence agencies (primarily the CIA and MI6) and Israel’s Mossad in supporting militant, separatist, and terrorist activities within the Islamic Republic of Iran.

As of June 14th, both the US and Iran are talking about signing an agreement which would stop the war against Iran. Current indications are that each side has very different expectations on what that agreement contains and what actions are required. In all likelihood these 47 years of attempts by the West and Israel to destroy the Islamic republic, and ideally Iran as a contiguous state, will continue.

This report provides a structured compilation of documented evidence and credible allegations regarding the involvement of Western intelligence agencies (primarily the CIA and MI6) and Israel’s Mossad in supporting militant, separatist, and terrorist activities within the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Western interventions in Iran have a long tradition; first invasions by Russia and Britain in the late 19th century, and then the CIA/MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected prime minister of Iran Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953 after he nationalized Iran’s oil industry; using Iranians thugs to install their Shah proxy (a model they attempted to use once again in the riots of 2025/2026). This historical precedent is often cited as the origin of Western state-sponsored efforts to destabilise the Iranian government [12].

Western media have also conducted a long campaign since the Iranian revolution in 1979 to demean the government (which they call the ‘regime”) and often exaggerate human rights abuses. While it is undeniable that the Iranian government has undertaken a significant number of human rights abuses in the past 47 years, they pale in comparison with the mass-murders by Israel, who is considered a Western ‘democratic’ ally of the West, or the brutality of many of the neighbouring Gulf States who have , until 2026 at least, also been Western allies (or perhaps ‘proxies’ might be a better word).

The much-publicised apparent natural death of an Iranian young woman on 13 September 2022, Mahsa Amini who had been ‘escorted’ to the Social Department and Women’s Training Hall by Iranian law enforcement personnel due to ‘non-compliance with hijab regulations’, was extensively used by Western media to condemn the Iranian government’s hijab laws and the ‘regime’ in general, and their apparent brutality against women who disobeyed the hijab law. The outcry in the Western press about the death and attempts to support women in Iran to violently demonstrate against the hijab laws was a prime example of Western media acting as proxies for Western governments attempting to destabilise the Iranian government.

The key issue for the West; particularly the US, Israel, the UK and Germany, is that Iran is a large sophisticated, well-educated and well-armed West Asian country of 93 million people, and is thus a threat to Israel’s 76 years of attempts to dominate West Asia by force, as well of course of being a potential huge source of cheap oil once again, for the West.

Western intelligence consequently feed Western media every negative trope they can find about Iran, and Western media are only too eager to obey their masters.

However Western governments key role to destabilise Iran has largely been through massive sanctions (along with the ‘freezing’ (‘temporary’ theft) of many billions of dollars of Iranian funds by the US), which have been estimated to have killed thousands of Iranians through inadequate nutrition or lack of medical resources, and plunged millions into poverty, in order to foment internal riots against the government . e.g the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s proud claims of destroying the Iranian rial to create a revolution against the Iranian government in 2025.

In addition threats of force, and resourcing of internal discontent have been a constant theme.

What follows is list of just some of the ongoing attempts by Western governments to destabilise Iran.

1. Direct Support for Militant and Terrorist Groups

Jundallah (Balochistan)

  • Secret War Allegations: In 2007, ABC News reported that the U.S. government had been secretly supporting Jundallah, a Sunni militant group that staged deadly attacks against Iranian officials and civilians. U.S. officials stated the relationship was managed to provide “encouragement” and intelligence without direct funding to bypass legal oversight [1].
  • Mossad “False Flag” Recruitment: A 2012 Foreign Policy investigation revealed CIA memos from 2007-2008 describing how Mossad agents posed as CIA officers to recruit Jundallah members in London. The agents used U.S. passports and currency to gain the group’s trust, an operation that reportedly infuriated the Bush administration [2].

Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO)

  • U.S. Training in Nevada: Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported that the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) trained MEK members at a secret Department of Energy site in Nevada starting in 2005. The training included communications, cryptography, small-unit tactics, and weaponry [3]
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  • Assassination Partnership: Reports from NBC News and other outlets have indicated that Israeli intelligence collaborated with the MEK to carry out the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists between 2010 and 2012. While the U.S. denied direct involvement, former officials suggested the U.S. provided critical intelligence to facilitate these operations [3] [4].

Kurdish Separatist Groups (PJAK/PAK)

  • Uprising Support (2026): Recent reporting from CNN and other sources indicates that the CIA has been working to arm and coordinate with Kurdish separatist forces to spark domestic uprisings inside Iran [5].
  • Israeli Military Support: During the 2026 conflict, reports emerged of Israel conducting airstrikes in western Iran specifically to support Kurdish militias attempting to seize border territory [6].

2. State-Sponsored Sabotage and Cyber-Terrorism

Stuxnet (Operation Olympic Games)

  • The First Cyber-Weapon: Stuxnet was a highly sophisticated computer worm developed jointly by the U.S. and Israel. It specifically targeted Siemens industrial control systems at the Natanz nuclear facility, causing nearly 1,000 centrifuges to physically destroy themselves [7].
  • Broader Malware Campaign: Stuxnet was part of a larger suite of state-sponsored malware including Flame, Duqu, and Gauss, designed for cyber-espionage and infrastructure sabotage against Iranian targets [7].

Physical Infrastructure Sabotage

  • Natanz Facility Attacks: The Natanz nuclear site has been the target of multiple physical sabotage operations attributed to Israel, including a major explosion in 2021 and further damage reported in 2025 [8].
  • Energy Infrastructure: Reports have documented at least 17 gas pipeline explosions in Iran in a single year (2011), which intelligence sources linked to a campaign of sabotage intended to demoralize the Iranian system [3].

3. Institutional Destabilization and “Soft War”

Funding of Opposition and “Democracy Promotion”

  • National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The NED has been documented funding various anti-Iran organizations, such as the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI). While framed as democracy promotion, these funds are viewed by the Iranian government and some international observers as tools for political sabotage and election interference [9].
  • USAID Involvement: USAID has been accused of funding prominent anti-regime figures and civil society groups to foster domestic unrest. In 2026, controversies surfaced regarding millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding directed toward activists like Masih Alinejad for anti-government campaigns [10].

Media and Information Warfare

  • State-Funded Persian Media: The U.S. government funds Voice of America (VOA) Persian and Radio Farda, while the UK funds BBC Persian. These outlets are categorized by the Iranian government as instruments of “soft war,” used to disseminate anti-government content and coordinate protest activities [11].
  • The apparently largely Saudi resourced anti-Iranian government website ‘Iran International’ has also played a significant role in attempting to support the large Iranian diaspora and ferment anti-Iranian issues and has been described as ‘used by Mossad to launder disinformation’.
  • Iran and Russia accused the US and Elon Musk’s Starlink platform of illegally importing 50,000 Starlink terminals into Iran to be used by rioters to coordinate their violent activities in January 2026.

5. Targeted Killings of Nuclear Scientists by Israeli/Mossad Proxies

  1. The 2010–2012 Wave: The initial wave of assassinations targeted key figures including Massoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari, and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, utilizing motorcycle-mounted magnetic bombs to eliminate top physicists.
  2. Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (2020): The father of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in November 2020 using a satellite-controlled, AI-operated machine gun [[4]].
  3. The 2025 Airstrike Campaign: During the 2025 military confrontation, Israeli media reported that airstrikes specifically targeted and killed up to 17 prominent Iranian nuclear scientists [[5]].

High-Profile Political and Military Assassinations

  1. Ismail Haniyeh (2024): The July 2024 assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh inside a guesthouse in Tehran was widely attributed to Mossad explosives [[10]].
  2. IRGC Commanders: The campaign includes the targeted killing of senior military figures, such as the 2011 death of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam (the “father of Iran’s missile program”) and the 2024 assassination of Mohammad Reza Zahedi in Damascus.

6. Additional Proxy and Separatist Agencies

Jaish ul-Adl (Army of Justice)

  1. Successor to Jundallah: Jaish ul-Adl has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks on IRGC military posts in the Sistan and Baluchestan province throughout 2024 and 2025 [[15]].
  2. Alleged State Sponsorship: Iranian officials and state media explicitly identify Jaish ul-Adl as a proxy force funded and directed by the CIA and Mossad to destabilize Iran’s borders [[13]].

Tondar (Kingdom Assembly of Iran)

  1. Monarchist Militancy: Tondar was responsible for the deadly 2008 Shiraz mosque bombing, and an Iranian court convicted the group and the US administration, citing American support for their terrorist acts [[26]].
  2. Leadership: The group was led by Jamshid Sharmahd, who was arrested by Iranian intelligence in 2020 after directing operations from abroad.

Kurdish Factions (KDPI and Komala)

  1. Border Offensives: Beyond PJAK, Kurdish factions like the KDPI and Komala were actively encouraged and armed by US and Israeli intelligence to launch armed campaigns and seize border towns during the 2025–2026 conflict [[37]].

7. Further Terror Attacks and Internal Sabotage

The “Dissident” Insider Threat

  1. Internal Recruitment: A 2025 ProPublica investigation revealed that Mossad secretly recruited and armed Iranian dissidents to carry out terror attacks and sabotage from within Iran’s borders [[19]].
  2. Air Defense Sabotage: In June 2025, it was reported that Mossad agents executed covert ground operations to actively sabotage Iranian air defenses and military sites just as Israeli airstrikes began [[23]].

Thwarted Plots and Executions

  1. 2023 Missile Industry Plot: In 2023, Iranian authorities announced they had dismantled a major Mossad spy network of at least 14 agents who were planning to sabotage the country’s missile industry [[22]].
  2. 2024 Executions: Furthermore, in early 2024, Iran executed four individuals convicted of plotting sabotage operations on behalf of Israeli intelligence [[20]].

Other Major Attacks

  1. 2018 Ahvaz Military Parade: A coordinated attack on a military parade in Ahvaz was claimed by both ISIS and the Ahvaz National Resistance, highlighting the convergence of jihadist and separatist tactics against the Iranian state.

References

[4] Iran Primer / USIP. (2020). Part 5: Assassinations of Iran Nuclear Scientists. https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/dec/02/part-5-assassinations-iran-nuclear-scientists
[5] Anadolu Agency. (2025). Israeli media claims 17 Iranian nuclear scientists killed in recent strikes. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-media-claims-17-iranian-nuclear-scientists-killed-in-recent-strikes-/3607095
[10] Wikipedia. Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ismail_Haniyeh
[13] Press TV. (2025). ‘Jaish al-Adl’ terrorist group as a proxy of CIA and Mossad. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/30/752136/jaish-al-adl-terrorist-group-as-proxy-cia-mossad-destabilize-iran
[15] The Long War Journal. (2024). Jaish al-Adl claims responsibility for twin attacks in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/10/jaish-al-adl-claims-responsibility-for-twin-attacks-in-irans-sistan-and-baluchistan-province.php
[19] ProPublica. (2025). Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Iran From Within. https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-iran-war-mossad-iranian-recruits
[20] CBS News. (2024). Iran executes 4 convicted of plotting with Israeli intelligence to attack. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-israel-spying-4-executions-alleged-mossad-sabotage-plot/
[22] i24NEWS. (2023). Iran Claims It Thwarted Israel’s Sabotage Attack On Its Missile Program. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/iran-eastern-states/1693476612-iran-claims-it-thwarted-israel-s-sabotage-attack-on-its-missile-program
[23] Defense One. (2025). Mossad agents sabotaged Iranian defenses as airstrikes began. https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2025/06/israeli-agents-sabotaged-iranian-defenses-airstrikes-began-official-says/406058/
[26] Mehr News Agency. (2024). Iran court orders US, Tondar terrorist group to pay $2.478bn. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/212904/Iran-court-orders-US-Tondar-terrorist-group-to-pay-2-478bn
[37] The New Arab. (2025). How Kurdish groups in Iran are reacting to Israel’s war. https://www.newarab.com/analysis/how-kurdish-groups-iran-are-reacting-israels-war

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 [5] CNN. (2026).CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/cia-arming-kurds-iran [6] Reuters. (2026). Israel backing Iranian Kurdish plans to seize border areas. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-backing-iranian-kurdish-plans-seize-iran-border-areas-sources-say-2026-03-06/ [7] Wikipedia. Stuxnet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet [8] The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (2025). Israel claims it damaged Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility significantly. https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/israel-claims-it-damaged-irans-natanz-nuclear-facility-significantly-but-questions-remain/ [9] Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. (2024). The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does. https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/wjbxw/202408/t20240809_11468618.html [10] Niacouncil.org. (2026). Civil Society Condemns Crackdown and Threat of Intervention.
 [11] VOA News. (2019).Western-Based Persian Media Rebuke Iran. https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_voa-news-iran_western-based-persian-media-rebuke-iran-harassing-journalists-covering/6180088.html [12] National Security Archive. The CIA’s 1953 Coup in Iran.5. Expanded Campaign of Israeli Assassinations