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Sometimes, to describe reality, it is necessary to resort to fiction. You have to hide in the folds of a novel what you can normally only guess or, worse, imagine. But what if it really was? What if what an author’s mind imagines were more true than true?
Let’s start with reality. From the facts. On April 30, 2018, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launches a harsh accusation against Iran: “Tehran is blatantly lying about its nuclear weapons” and “aims to acquire at least five nuclear weapons similar to those used in Hiroshima.” Several images appear behind the prime minister. They say little or nothing to most, but they are the result of years of work by the Israeli secret services. It is, Netanayhu continues, 55 thousand documents and another 55 thousand files on CD, “exact copies of the originals of the secret archives of Tehran. Evidence that would confirm the existence of Iran’s nuclear rearmament plan, called “love“.
“This is – Neatanyahu concludes – one of the greatest intelligence successes Israel has ever achieved.” Difficult to discuss. These documents, in fact, will help blow up the agreement that the United States, along with France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany, had signed with Iran. But what happened that night many years ago?
the New York Times, in an article dated July 15, 2018, just over two months after Netanyahu’s words, tried to shed some light: “Mossad agents who moved into a warehouse in a seedy Tehran business district knew exactly how long they had to turn off the alarms, break down two doors, hack dozens of giant safes, and get out of town with half the secret stuff – six hours and 29 minutes. ” Everything is played in a matter of seconds: that night, January 31, Mossad agents open 32 safes, from which they manage to steal a lot of material. Time is running fast. Too much, perhaps. Three, two, one. Finished. We have to go. The Israeli team heads to the border, “with some 50,000 pages and 163 compact discs of notes, videos and projects.”
Here the story ends and we are forced to enter fiction, thanks to Mossad, one night in Tehran, the latest novel by Michael Sfaradi for La nave di Teseo (embellished by the cover and the drawings, made in pencil, charcoal and ballpoint pen, by Rosj Domini).
Everything revolves around that day, that January 31 that would change the history of the Middle East. Indeed, everything revolves around preparing for that day because certain operations, to be truly effective, must be prepared years in advance. Everything can start by chance, for example witnessing a strange fight in a German pub, to finally arrive at the operation. And in the middle? There is the story of a protagonist – Ilan – a little James bond, a little’ Eli cohen (the Israeli spy who managed to reach the top of the arch nemesis Syria) who thinks and acts like a perfect 007: “Reason quickly as he had been trained, to the limits and, if necessary, overcome them to discover the extreme line and then go further “.
Ilan (Emad, once infiltrated, Ed) knows that each of his actions will provoke a reaction. On one side or the other: “Reasoning (…) with the most extreme pragmatism, which was better: Iran with the bomb in hand and the potential to prevent Israel from sleeping a quiet night for eternity Or a big mess that he would redesign the Middle East with tears and blood? The choice had to be political, he was just a proponent agent, and then when decisions were made, he obeyed orders. “
It is impossible not to think of these words when I reread what happened in Iran in three very dense weeks of last July: strange explosions were registered in Khojir, where the most important Iranian facility for the production of missiles is located; at the Natanz nuclear base, where centrifuges are manufactured to enrich uranium; west of Tehran where, for hours, there was a blackout. Was it the Mossad? No one can tell. This secret service, in fact, is “famous more for what was unknown about him, than for what had come to light over the years, but what most impressed and scared the enemies was that aura of unbeatable and myth “. that, over the years, was created around that word, Mossad, which in Israel is in common use, but which in the rest of the world makes the wrists tremble ”.
Suggestions, of course. But what makes us think …
