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Your reputation, whether you like it or not, is of the most dangerous Mossad agents in the world. I want to understand how a nice French Jewish girl ends up infiltrating the highest echelons of the Iranian regime. Everyone was under the impression that I was Muslim, because as far as the world was concerned, I had to be.

Otherwise, I don't think I would be alive. And you put that at the feet of Islam? Yes. Catherine Perez Shaghdan was no ordinary journalist. She was on a secret mission to expose the truth about the Iranian high command.

Posing as a devout Muslim, gaining the trust of its elite. And walked away with one of the most explosive stories of the 21st century. Make me into whatever, but make me a somebody, a something. And the next day, I received an email. Who asked you to write about what?

I knew where to throw the net, and I was waiting. You catch the eye of the regime in Iraq. What are your next moves then? It was about how do I maneuver getting a divorce from this man, keeping my kids, keeping my head, and lying my way to the regime.

I want to ask you about the Ayatollah. So you're face to face. What happened? I got to Iran not understanding, not knowing that that was going to happen that time. Okay, it wasn't in the plan.

And that as far as he was concerned, for the sake of the revolution and its victory, he was willing to sacrifice every single Iranian. Yusnader Talebzadeh sat me at a table and told me. In 2017? Yes.

You met Qasim Soleimani. What was your interaction with him? A meeting was arranged. That's when I got a bit scared because I was thinking like, okay, we're getting into like territory that I really don't want to venture into.

The whole aim and ambition of the regime, and listen to this carefully, is to...