Israel’s former Mossad chief says spies ‘toured’ Iran nuclear site

JERUSALEM - A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on Aug 11 said its spies had visited Iran’s Fordow nuclear site “many times” in the past in order to better understand the facility.In June 2025, Israel launched a war against its arch-foe Iran with the stated goal of degrading its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, which it said posed an “existential threat”.The United States military briefly joined Israel during the 12-day conflict, and used its advanced aircraft to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.“We toured the Fordow nuclear site many times to understand the site,” Yossi Cohen - who led Mossad between 2015 and 2021 - said during a conference of local authorities on Aug 11, according to Israeli media.He didn’t elaborate on when ex