No evidence has been found that supports Tehran's claims that Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, operated a permanent spy station in the Kurdish city of Erbil in northern Iraq, two Iraqi officials told Asharq al-Awsat on Monday, discussing the country's investigation into a March 13 missile attack by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
The Iraqi officials noted that prior to the attack, Iran had conveyed its anger to the governments in Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region, over the presence of Iranian opposition elements in Kurdistan, and only mentioned the Mossad after the attack on a villa belonging to a Kurdish businessman in the city that Tehran alleged also functioned as a Mossad training facility.
