Nadav Eyal

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1,863 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · The Secret Plan to Weaponize the Kurds (Part 2) - with Nadav Eyal · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

I think it's a great question why uh the Israeli public and the entire world didn't hear that war aim.

Usually these war aims are public.

So for instance, Israel's war in Gaza, the war aims were made public at the time, not in this case.

And the reason, Dan, is mostly because it's the first time that the Israeli cabinet took a decision to try and topple a regime.

Formally, not only a regime, but the government, the totalitarian government, of a country with about 100 million people, very far away, thousands of kilometers away from Israel, a country that has a robust security establishment.

And the Israelis, I think, knew that if they published this war aim, that could actually hinder the possibility of the plan.

Being implemented.

Now, the goal was to deeply degrade or remove the threats Iran poses to Israel by creating the military conditions for a change of regime in Iran.

And the reason I mentioned the first half of the sentence to deeply degrade or remove the threats Iran poses to Israel is because if you think about that first half of the sentence, you

Understand the conflict that ensued between the military, the Mossad, and the cabinet ministers.

Oh no, of course.

The administration and the president got a full brief.

And as far as the Israelis are concerned, and I want to underline that, as far as the Israelis are concerned, greenlighted the plan.

And this was reported by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on the New York Times.

The New York Times is also the media group that reported about the recruitment of Ahmadinejad and the Kurdish forces.

This was out there then while

The war was still going on and before the US or Israel gave the stand down order to the Kurdish forces.

So the US and Israel were very much in deliberations as to this plan.

Now there's a big difference between what Israeli sources are saying as to the green light that they received from Washington DC and what was reported in the US.

As far as the Israeli sources are concerned, mainly Mossad sources, the president authorized the entire plan to topple the regime.

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