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Israeli prime minister tells Mossad, IDF, military intelligence "to overthrow Islamic Republic"

Editor's note: this story was translated from the original VOA Persian article. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his directive to his country's Mossad intelligence agency, the Israel ...