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Presence of Mossad agents in Kurdistan region threatens Iraq’s national security: Analyst

Monday, 06 October 2025 10:33 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 06 October 2025 10:44 AM ]

Mossad director David Barnea

An Iraqi security analyst has warned against the presence of operatives working for the Israeli regime’s spy agency, Mossad, in the country’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, stressing that their activities gravely undermine the national security of the Arab nation.

Speaking in an interview with the Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency on Monday, Sabah al-Akili stated that the presence of Mossad and US military facilities in the Kurdish region is meant to harm and damage Iraq, cautioning that certain parties in the region are pushing Washington and its allies to spark off crises within Iraq.

“The Kurdistan region is home to Mossad’s special information and operations centers. The aims and objectives of such presence on the Iraqi soil are well known,” Akili noted.

The member of the Rights Movement political faction further highlighted that a number of opposition parties are present in the Kurdistan region, which tend to get in the way of the decisions of the Baghdad government and obstruct the national political consensus.

“They seek to provoke internal rifts and divisions to ensure the advancement of US and Zionist agendas within the Iraqi territories.

“Certain Kurdish groups seek to plunge the country into chaos by mobilizing some American politicians to issue statements and threats against Iraq, in a way that serves the interests of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Washington, and the occupying Tel Aviv regime,” Akili said.

For regional security, Zionist presence in Erbil and US occupation of Iraq must end

The attack on Mossad headquarters in Erbil conveyed the message clearly: for security in the region, Zionist bases must be dismantled and the US occupation must end.

Until now, Israel has remained the only entity that has backed the Kurdish secession from Iraq. Israeli enthusiasm for an independent Kurdish state is solely motivated by geopolitical reasons.

Israel aims to ensure the uninterrupted flow of oil supplies from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region; however, its primary objective is to establish a pro-Israeli entity that permeates the Arab World.

Israel currently sources 77 percent of its oil supplies from the Kurdish region of Iraq. These imports hold significant importance for the Zionist entity, given its lack of access to the natural resources found in the oil-rich Persian Gulf states.

Furthermore, Israel holds the view that a sovereign Kurdish state could act as a strategic base for its military and intelligence operations, thereby granting the regime leverage against Iran and Iraq.

The formation of a sovereign Kurdish state in West Asia aligns seamlessly with Oded Yion's 1982 proposal for the region, which promoted the division of the Arab world based on ethnic and sectarian divisions to bolster Israel and extend its hegemony.

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