But after attending university in London, Catherine began cultivating a cover so deep that not even the ayatollah — who entertained Catherine in his own house — suspected she was an Israeli spy who would one day be responsible for eliminating most of Iran’s top generals and nuclear scientists.

Catherine’s carefully manufactured persona was so perfect that she became a featured writer for the ayatollah, official Iranian media, a state-controlled Russian television station, and even the IRGC. She used those very outlets to transmit coded messages to the Mossad!

They trusted her. . .

Catherine became a fixture in Iran’s most elite circles. She befriended Nader Talebzadeh (aka Iran’s Goebbels) and his wife, Major-General Qasem Soleimani’s daughter, and even former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Because the men believed Catherine was a trusted journalist for the regime, they spoke freely around her. After all, the ayatollah and President Raisi had worked directly with her in the past.

Catherine was so well trusted that in 2017, senior regime officials let her in on a secret plan to map the location of every prominent Jew in the world, so that Iran’s Quds Force assassination squads could wipe out the best and brightest. The plot was “mysteriously” foiled, but no one suspected Catherine.

Some of Catherine’s best information came when the men retreated for meetings, leaving the women folk to entertain themselves. Catherine sipped tea with the wives, asking deliberate questions posed with all the concern of a caring friend.

“How does he carry the weight of such responsibility?” “Does he ever find peace at home?” “How do you bear being home alone so often?”

She was rewarded with answers the wives readily gave to their trusted “friend.” Catherine learned the itineraries of Iran’s top leaders, the locations of their private villas and secret compounds, the names and locations of the husbands’ colleagues — military brass, nuclear scientists, and even secret Quds Force soldiers.

Catherine quietly memorized every word, then published “pro-Iranian” news articles that included coded messages for the Mossad.

In 2022, her cover was nearly blown — she was outed as a Jew, leading Catherine to vehemently and publicly declare that she was not a Mossad agent. She blamed the rumors on her former in-laws, Sunni Muslims who disliked her supposed “conversion” to Shia Islam. Her cover held, but barely.

Operation Shabgard (Nightwalker): June 13-14, 2025
Catherine’s years of work came to a head two weeks ago. On June 13-14, the IDF attacked with surgical precision. The IDF took out an IRGC general the hour he returned to his secret villa. They took out a nuclear scientist as he smoked a cigarette in his secluded garden and a commander who had stayed late at the hammam (steam bath).

Eight top IRGC generals, seven top nuclear scientists, and three Quds Force generals were blown to smithereens in the beds of their secret compounds, and the Iranian regime was reduced to ashes.

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Escape and Extraction. . .

As the bombs flew over the skies of Tehran, Catherine used the chaos to quietly disappear. She traversed the Zagros mountains and hid in a dry riverbed in the Kurdish borderlands. Just before dawn, a Mossad helicopter extracted Catherine to safety, and she has since disappeared.

The Iranian regime has put a massive price on Catherine’s head, executing any who are suspected of helping her. Her name is a curse now to the regime that once trusted her, but a blessing on the lips of the Israelis who know the truth.

She’s been called the “Black Lady of Israel,” “The Minaret Whisperer,” “The Scribe of the Shadows,” “The Woman Who Burned Qom Without a Matchstick.” But the most fitting moniker is perhaps the simplest — “The Mossad’s most dangerous spy.”

I think Catherine’s French Resistance fighter grandfather would be incredibly proud. Please pray for Catherine’s safety. Her life is now permanently in danger. Pray, too, for all of Israel.

In a future email, I will share Catherine’s direct conversations with the ayatollah. Those conversations reveal that he will stop at nothing to bring about the return of the Mahdi, the anti-Christ who will bring in the Apocalypse. Until he and his ilk are removed from this earth, Israel, America, and Catherine Perez-Shakam remain in grave danger.

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Mat Staver
Chairman
Christians in Defense of Israel

Sources:

Due to the sensitive nature of this information, not every source can be cited.

Isaacson, Gila. “Mossad’s Master Spy: How Catherine Perez-Shakdam Infiltrated Iran’s Elite.” JFeed, June 27, 2025. JFeed.com/news-israel/mossad-alleged-master-spy-catherine-perez-shakdam.

‌Rose, David. “How I Infiltrated the Tehran Regime and Met the Ayatollah.” The Jewish Chronicle, February 16, 2023. Thejc.com/news/how-i-infiltrated-the-tehran-regime-and-met-the-ayatollah-nvxd0llz.