Lieberman Dismisses Reported Mossad Iran Plan as Disorganized

Israel Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday on 103FM that the Mossad should focus entirely on toppling Iran’s regime, after reports about an alleged agency plan to help bring it down. Speaking with Gideon Oko and Amihai Atali, he said that if he were prime minister, he would tell the Mossad chief, “You do not deal with anything else, only with the overthrow of the Iranian regime.”

Asked about the reported effort, Lieberman said, “I know the attempt, as always it is a shoddy attempt, disorganized, not systematic deep work with the required resources. There was no orderly work plan, and I do not want to go beyond that.” He repeated that the Mossad must be assigned a single mission, regime change in Tehran.

Lieberman also said he would create a missile corps if he were in office. He argued that Israel needs at least 20,000 ballistic and cruise missiles, saying this would allow a much faster response than relying on the air force, even though he praised Israeli pilots as the best in the world.

A day earlier, Lieberman laid out a harsher formula in light of the US-Iran deal, saying that for every Iranian launch at Israel, Israel should destroy Kharg Island and the port of Bandar Abbas.