Did Mossad Really Deploy Genies Against the Ayatollahs?
When an Iranian regime insider recently claimed that Israel had deployed “supernatural spirits” in its latest war with Iran—complete with Jewish talismans allegedly found on Tehran’s streets—it didn’t shock me. It didn’t even make me laugh. It gave me déjà vu.
Because I’ve heard this kind of weaponized wizardry before—not from some fringe mystic, but from inside the actual halls of power in the Islamic Republic. A place where absurdity regularly masquerades as strategy, and yes, where horse magazines share space with national security briefings.
August 1997. A new president had taken office. The outgoing ministers—too connected to fire, too irrelevant to keep—were “strategically parked” inside the Supreme National Security Council building, just down the hall from the president’s office. That’s where I was summoned to help one of them—now rebranded as head of the National Equestrian Federation—launch a glossy magazine about horse sports.
Minutes after we arrived, the meeting derailed. Two former ministers and a deputy president wandered in, and what began as a publishing pitch morphed into a bizarre, off-the-record cabinet reunion.
That afternoon, I accidentally overheard two state secrets—both of which should have landed me in a concrete cell or a pine box.
First, a former minister confidently declared that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 2005.
Then came Dr. Hadi Manafi—former head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Agency—who, with a perfectly straight face, revealed that the Ministry of Intelligence was exploring how to recruit genies for espionage.
Yes. Genies.
Manafi, who also headed Iran’s Medical Hypnosis Association (because of course he did), leaned in and said:
“I was tasked with speaking to Grand Ayatollah Bahjat… to find a way to recruit the jinn.”
And then came the punchline: they were told “to only recruit Shiite jinn.”
Let that sink in. While supposedly racing toward a nuclear arsenal, Iran’s intelligence apparatus was conducting sectarian background checks on invisible supernatural beings.
You couldn’t make this up—unless you were on the regime’s payroll.
The truly chilling part? We were warned—quietly but firmly—that we were never supposed to hear any of it.
No clearance. No credentials. No plausible deniability.
We were told, in no uncertain terms:
Mention the bomb or the jinn outside this room, and you’ll disappear.
Because in the Islamic Republic, the line between farce and fallout is razor-thin.
I can only assume someone else in that room leaked the idea to Jerusalem—because it looks like Mossad managed to hire the spirits and genies before Tehran could finish vetting theirs.
I know I didn’t say a word.
And yet, a few years later, after drawing a cartoon, I was dragged in for interrogation.
The judiciary demanded I confess that the idea behind it came from Israel.
Apparently, even my satire had foreign handlers.
Cut to 2025.
Nearly three decades later, that same magical thinking is back—this time on X. A regime insider, reportedly close to Iran’s intelligence agencies, claimed that “Jewish talismans” were found on Tehran’s streets during the recent 12-day war with Israel—clear evidence, he insisted, of supernatural warfare.
Yes, this is where we are.
The same regime that boasts about hypersonic missiles and uranium enrichment is now ranting about mystical attacks and invisible spirits. The narrative has shifted from martyrdom to magic, from missiles to mysticism.
So in the next round of conflict between Tehran and Jerusalem, I’m bracing for a supernatural arms race:
Ministry of Genie Recruitment vs. Mossad
I wouldn’t be surprised if Tehran’s not-so-intelligent Intelligence Ministry is already planning a counterstrike—to pass its genies through a Genie Iron Dome.
Because in the Islamic Republic, fantasy isn’t a distraction from statecraft.
It is statecraft.
Answer the first question,no, never!