Liberman Dismisses Reported Mossad Plan on Iran, Calls for Missile Force

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman questioned a reported Mossad plan to help bring down Iran’s regime, saying on 103FM that it was not a serious, structured effort. Speaking with Gidon Oko and Amichai Attali, he said that if he were prime minister he would tell the Mossad chief to focus on one task only, regime change in Iran.

“I know the attempt, as always it was a ‘derdalah’ attempt, not organized, not a systematic deep operation with the required resources,” Liberman said. “There was no orderly work plan, and I do not want to go beyond that.” He repeated that the Mossad “must move to one mission, the overthrow of the regime.”

Liberman also said his second move as prime minister would be to create a missile corps. He argued Israel should have at least 20,000 ballistic and cruise missiles, saying that while Israel’s air force pilots are “the best in the world,” air operations take hours because crews and munitions have to be deployed.

A day earlier, amid the US-Iran deal, Liberman outlined his deterrence formula, saying that for every Iranian launch at Israel, Israel should respond by destroying Kharg Island and the port of Bandar Abbas. The article was published on June 16, 2026, at 09:10.