The operative continued, ‘We will hit you, your family, your children, everyone, with the dirt,’ offering the general a 12-hour ‘reprieve.’ The threats were delivered in Persian, the official language of Iran. ‘Like I said, 12 hours from this very minute that I spoke to you, you have time to escape,’ the Mossad agent warned. ‘If not, you have no one to blame but yourself.’ The operative also claimed to be calling from a country that had recently assassinated two top IRGC generals and the former head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

The operative described the fate of the three men as ‘One by one, to hell,’ though Iranian media disputed the claim of one assassination. The agent then asked the general, ‘Do you want to be one of them? Do you want to be the next one on the list? Do you also want to destroy your wife and child? No, right?’ The general’s response was, ‘So, what should I do?’ The agent instructed the general to record a video denouncing the Iranian regime and send it via Telegram within 12 hours. It remains unclear whether the general complied. This warning was part of a broader effort to intimidate lower-ranking leaders within the Iranian government, aiming to sow fear and complicate the replacement of top officials being targeted by Israeli forces. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has not commented on the matter.