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Eliezer “Geizi” Tzafrir, a former senior official of the Shin Bet and Mossad who is best known for his role as the last Mossad station chief in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, died this weekend at 92.
After his retirement, Tzafrir published several books about his service in places such as Kurdistan and Iran, and gave in-depth interviews to Israeli outlets, saying he had advised “senior figures” in Israel on Iran until recently. His later remarks gained renewed relevance amid ongoing protests in Iran, which some see as the start of a counter-revolution, and rising regional tensions, including US threats to intervene in the crisis.