Target Tehran

How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East

By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics
Winner of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Prize

“One of the most accurate and fascinating books so far” (Michael Bar-Zohar, coauthor of Mossad) about how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar—and diplomacy—to thwart Iran’s development of nuclear weapons and, in the process, begin to reshape the Middle East.

Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States. Even as it takes lethal action, Israel has managed to alter the politics of the Middle East, culminating in the Abraham Accords of 2020. Arab states such as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates normalized relations with Israel, and the holy grail of normalization with Saudi Arabia may yet be achieved. Despite the war with Hamas, these Arab states share Israel’s concern with Iran, remaining silent while Israel undermines Iran’s nuclear program.

Bob and Evyatar reveal how Israel has used documents stolen from Tehran in a daring, secret Mossad raid to show the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency how Iran has repeatedly violated the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement and lied about its active nuclear weapons program. Drawing from interviews with top confidential Israeli and US sources, including from the Mossad and the CIA, the authors tell the “thrilling” (Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds) inside story of the tumultuous, and often bloody, history of how Israel has managed to outmaneuver Iran—so far.

Well researched and written. Exciting, timely and topical given current events.

The ending of the book is a bit abrupt for my taste. But at least they didn’t try to explain too much.

Clarity with deep understanding of the material

Well researched and presented in a balanced way. The predictions at the last chapter, have blown me away, given what we know today.

Excellent

Very well sourced and super relevant, deeply insightful analysis and debate, highly recommended! Well worth the read!

Couldn’t walk away !

Incredible book ! Couldn’t walk away from it. Have already recommended it to many of my friends!

Clear premise on Iran and Abraham accords

Well written and narrated. Great education on Iran concealment of centrifuges and the Mossad’s undercover retrieval of Iran nuclear files