How We Got Iran's Nuclear Secrets - Ex Mossad Director Yossi Cohen

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Yossi Cohen is a former Mossad Director (2016–2021), known for leading daring operations like seizing Iran’s nuclear archive and helping broker the Abraham Accords. | Venice AI: Private, uncensored AI https://venice.ai/triggernometry - use code TRIGGERNOMETRY to get 20% off a pro plan Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible: - Cape - America's privacy-first mobile carrier. Click https://cape.co/trigger - Promo Code: TRIGGER33 for 33% off - GiveSendGo - the free speech crowdfunding platform https://www.givesendgo.com/#triggerpod Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 - Introduction 01:22 - What Is Mossad? 04:17 - Criticism Of The Israeli Military On October 7th 12:57 - Why Did The Military Response Take So Long? 17:10 - Why Had Mossad Not Infiltrated Hamas? 20:25 - The Mindset Of An Operative 36:00 - The Stealing Of Iran's Nuclear Secrets 47:07 - Did The Strikes On Iran By The US Destroy Their Nuclear Programme? 50:14 - Why Does Iran Want A Nuclear Bomb? 58:03 - How Big Are The Threats To The UK From Terror Cells? 01:12:02 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're very, very critical of the Israeli military when it comes to October 7th.
0:06.0	Correct.
0:07.0	What do you think were the key failings that caused that to happen?
0:10.0	Well, why have Israeli secret services not infiltrated Hamas?
0:14.0	Why isn't there a guy there going, hey, they're going to launch a fucking attack?
0:18.0	Why didn't that happen?
0:20.0	Based on your intelligence, based on what you know, why does Iran want a nuclear bomb?
0:25.4	The biggest coup of your career as Director of Mossad, that we know about at least, was
0:29.5	stealing Iran's nuclear secrets.
0:31.7	Yeah.
0:32.1	I mean, know exactly what's happening in this kind of world.
0:34.7	I think that there are hiding the filthiest secrets of Iran bring it home.
0:41.4	We brought a lot of documents on this, a lot of videos and hard disks.
0:47.5	I mean, amazing stuff.
0:49.3	We've been surprised ourselves.
0:51.4	So what did you find?
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1:10.0	Triggerpod.combe.comcom.combe.combe. Thank you very much for having me. You're the former director of Mossad. Your book is called Sword of Freedom. It's good to have you on the show. Thank you very much. For our audience, you may be less familiar with the world of the Secret Service and so on. What is Mossad?
1:28.3	Well, Mossad is an intelligence service. I mean, working outside of the Steregisual. I mean,
1:32.5	in comparison to the other organization that you may know, I mean, the MI6 in the British version
1:39.5	of the James Wonders, we call it, or the CIA, all right? mean they and these are the like the equivalents of the
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