As predicted and reported here in an advance exclusive, Mossad Director David Barnea emerged briefly from the shadows Aug. 25 to slam the impending nuclear deal with Iran as being “based on lies,” and the decision to leave open three probes indicating unreported Iranian nuclear activity as “an unprecedented national fraud.”

Barnea briefed Prime Minister Yair Lapid and other top officials on the emerging agreement with Iran in recent days, and conducted several rare background briefings with reporters in which he explained that even if the findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remain pending, once the deal is signed, no one would lift a finger to complete them.

While pursuing its shadow war to prevent Iran’s nuclearization — a task with which the late agency head Meir Dagan was entrusted 20 years by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon — the Mossad has also become a leader of feminist empowerment in recent months.

The agency issued an unprecedented announcement last week reporting the historic appointments of two women to its top leadership forum. A., a Mossad veteran who rose through the ranks of the predominantly male organization, now heads the Mossad’s Intelligence Directorate (the counterpart of the Chief of Military Intelligence); K. also a longtime Mossad staffer, has been placed in charge of the Iran campaign and tasked with responsibility for dealing with Israel’s most dangerous enemy, including the nuclear threat it holds.