‘Mossad’ Farsi X account crowns exile journalist for cracking Iran’s hush-hush war-chief mystery

The game started a day earlier, when Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that the regime would not reveal the commander’s identity “for his protection. ” A Persian-language X/Twitter account that styles itself as Israel’s Mossad, but has never been publicly acknowledged by the agency, announced on Wednesday that investigative journalist Behnam Gholipour had won its crowd-sourced guessing game by correctly naming the Islamic Republic’s newly appointed, officially unnamed commander of