Pensioners Minister and former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan hinted that the intelligence agency could capture Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and haul him before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Pensioners Minister and former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
In an interview published Tuesday with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Eitan was asked whether the Mossad still hunted down Nazis.
"That era is over. But that's not to say that such operations are completely a thing of the past," he answered. "It could very well be that a leader such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly finds himself before the International Criminal Court in The Hague."
Referring to the Iranian president, Eitan said that those who "spread poison" and wanted to eradicate another people had "to expect such consequences."
In 1960, Eitan led the Mossad operation to capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
Last week, he said that the Mossad scrapped a plan to seize the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who was located in Argentina in 1960, in order not to botch Eichmann's capture.
Etgar Lefkovits contributed to this report
