October 7th

Mossad Calls on Iranians to Help Target the Regime Former Mossad chief and JCFA researcher, Oded Ailam, says the Mossad’s public appeal to Iranians is part of an effort to turn public anger against the regime into actionable intelligence. “This is not a textbook intelligence operation,” he said. “It’s out-of-the-box thinking built on the deep resentment of much of Iranian society toward the regime.” According to Ailam, the goal is to help identify Basij and IRGC positions embedded inside civilian areas in order to improve precision targeting. He added that years of economic collapse, repression, and the January massacres made intelligence penetration inside Iran significantly easier than in the past.

Iran’s Regime Is Eroding from Within Oded Ailam, former head of the Mossad’s Counter-Terrorism Division, warned that the collapse of the Iranian regime will not happen overnight or through a dramatic rebel march on Tehran. “This will not be a Jolani-style takeover with pickup trucks entering the capital,” he said. “We are talking about a huge country of 90 million people with deep ideological and security structures.” Still, Ailam believes the regime is entering a historic process of erosion. According to him, the combination of economic catastrophe, military pressure, and the loss of legitimacy among nearly 80% of the Iranian public could eventually lead either to mass unrest or internal fractures within the regime itself. He added that intelligence services are likely already in contact with figures inside the Iranian system.

Hamas Rebuilt Under the Ceasefire JCFA Senior Researcher, Lt. Col. (res.) Adv. @MauriceHirsch4, warns that Hamas has used the ceasefire period not for peace, but to rebuild its power in Gaza. According to Hirsch, the organization has tightened its grip on civilians by controlling humanitarian aid, eliminating suspected “collaborators,” and reestablishing itself as the governing authority in the Strip. “They are enforcing their rule in the streets while the population becomes completely dependent on them,” he says. At the same time, Hirsch explains, Hamas has been reorganizing militarily: recruiting new fighters, recovering weapons from surviving tunnels, and rebuilding its combat structure. “They are regrouping both as a fighting force and as a governing force,” he says, warning that Hamas continues to reject every proposal involving disarmament while positioning itself for the next round of conflict.

Hamas Refuses to Disarm as Qatar and Turkey Fail to Deliver JCFA Senior Researcher, Lt. Col. (res.) Adv. @MauriceHirsch4, says the international effort to pressure Hamas has collapsed because the very countries expected to influence the terror group continue protecting it. According to Hirsch, Qatar and Turkey were supposed to use their leverage over Hamas, but “both have failed completely.” Qatar, he notes, still allows Hamas offices to operate openly, while Turkey continues providing safe haven and financial support to Hamas leadership. Hirsch warns that the latest proposals for Gaza governance risk repeating the same mistake. Instead of full disarmament, new discussions focus on Hamas giving up control only in certain areas while remaining armed elsewhere. “Hamas keeps saying clearly: we will never give up our weapons,” Hirsch explains. “And when they speak about ending the occupation, they do not mean Gaza. They mean they will not stop until Israel itself surrenders.”

Iran Expert: “The Ayatollah Regime Will Fall Before the End of Trump’s Term” Sagiv Asulin, former senior Mossad official and current researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), estimates that the Iranian regime will not survive in the long run: “The Ayatollah regime will fall before the end of Trump’s term, but this is a long process, not something that will happen within months.” According to him, Israel is in a far stronger position today thanks to the joint pressure campaign with the United States, but warns against the illusion that there are “moderates” in Tehran. According to Asulin, any agreement with the current regime would be bad for Israel: “There is no real difference between Pezeshkian and the heads of the Revolutionary Guards. It’s the same ideology with different tactics.” He argues that continued sanctions and economic pressure are preferable at this stage to immediate military action: “Every additional day of pressure weakens the regime even further.”

What do Israelis really think about Iran? @sogandsf, Iran analyst at the JCFA, went to the streets of Tel Aviv to ask Israelis directly. As an Iranian Israeli, this conversation is personal. It’s about identity, and the complicated reality between two peoples who often know each other only through headlines. Watch until the end, and tell us: What question should we ask next?

Students. Cafes. Daily life. Not the full story you’re being told.

The next October 7 could come from the sky. New footage from Southern Israel shows a commercial drone lifting a human, a capability that could transform the battlefield. Hamas & Hezbollah are undoubtedly watching. Don't look away: share this before it’s too late.

Someone updated the mural a bit too early... A mural of prominent deceased leaders of the Islamic Revolution was unveiled in the city of Mashhad, Iran. For an unknown reason, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's current leader, was listed among the dead.

On Israel’s Independence Day 🇮🇱 Here’s a message we’re “not supposed” to send: We don’t want war with the people of Lebanon. We don’t want to be your enemy. But we will defend ourselves. Watch.

On Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember not only the past, but the moral choices that echo into the present. Decades after World War II, Israel’s Mossad made a shocking decision: not to eliminate one of Hitler’s most infamous commandos, Otto Skorzeny, but to recruit him. In this episode of East to West, @smartinezamir speaks with former senior Mossad official and JCFA researcher Oded Ailam, who reveals how this extraordinary operation unfolded, and what it teaches us about espionage, morality, and survival in the shadow of history. Links to the full interview in the comments.

She is only 19. Saghar Gholami has been sentenced to death by hanging in Iran. Be her voice. Speak for the thousands silenced behind prison walls.

Welcome to the most beautiful place in the world. If you ignore the terrorists, the weapons, and the country they’ve destroyed.

What does a revolution look like without internet? In Iran, a digital blackout is being used to control reality, but real change may begin the moment people realize something has shifted. @avirambell on @i24NEWS_HE 👇

European leaders are becoming heroes for terrorists in Iran. The regime puts stickers (thanking Spain's PM) on ballistic missiles before firing them towards Israel. Are we surprised?

This is not good. While we're dealing with Iran, Hamas is rebuilding itself in Gaza.

Another AI drop from Tehran? Same background. Same pose. Same setup in both the “Mojtaba” and “Ali Khamenei” clips. Feels like rushed AI trying to sell “business as usual.” When regimes panic, propaganda gets sloppy. What do you see?

History class is getting rewritten… in real time, in Tehran. When fear disappears, the portraits start burning.

Turkey out here funding a Gaza Mosque for bin Laden’s former sensei.