Israel made use of a clandestine group of military psychics in its attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and military targets in June, Israeli psychic and mystifier Uri Geller told The Jerusalem Post.
In a phone interview, Geller elaborated that this reveal supports a claim made by Abdollah Ganji, former editor of the IRGC-linked newspaper Javan, that Israel utilized “occult and supernatural forces” during what the IDF dubbed Operation Rising Lion.
“In the first year of the Gaza war, news had leaked about [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu meeting with occult specialists,” Ganji said on X/Twitter.
“A few years ago, the Supreme Leader had stated that hostile countries and Western and Hebrew intelligence services use occult sciences and jinn entities for espionage.”
While the Mossad’s Farsi X account was quick to lampoon this allegation, Geller said that Ganji was “basically right.”
“The circumstances in Iran were so mysterious and so bizarre that the Iranian government realized that this cannot happen with mechanical means or cyberattacks. They cannot happen with anything known to the human mind from a scientific point of view,” he explained.
“They came to the conclusion that it was something supernatural, and they were basically right.”
Did the US government recruit human teleporters?
Geller claimed that in the 1970s, he and several others were tested by a team of scientists in the United Kingdom to see if they could dematerialize objects and rematerialize them elsewhere, an ability Geller referred to as teleportation.
This information, he claimed, was then shared with the US National Security Agency (NSA), which in part led them to develop a potential plan to dematerialize an entire Russian city.
While Geller is tight-lipped about the finer details of these events, it is true that the US had a secret project investigating the potential military applications of psychic powers. This would become known as the Stargate Project, and Geller himself was certified by the CIA as having presented his paranormal abilities in "a convincing and unambiguous manner" while being studied by them in the 1970s. Furthermore, the story is also backed up by NSA documents declassified in 2011.
“The British scientists who tested Uri Geller complained of poltergeist phenomena,” the documents state. “Objects left the room, some appeared later, some never did. Scientists for many years have observed poltergeist phenomena in which objects ‘go through’ solid walls or disappear.”
That same document outlined the possibility of weaponizing this capability by subjecting someone to the right emotional triggers – in this case trauma, as the document notes that grief seemed to be the most effective – to make things disappear.
The document states: “[If] you concentrate ten individuals in one area - all of whom are evidencing disruptive telekinetic phenomena - do you cause a chain reaction, causing much matter to reverse direction and sink back into a sea of energy or be displaced in time and space[?] Could such a ‘critical mass’ affect a whole city?”
Ultimately, Project Stargate would be shuttered and declassified in 1995, but Geller claimed it never really died out. Rather, he says that it was continued in secret, and that to this day, there remains a secret group of psychics who use their abilities for military purposes. He would not reveal any details about this group or its members other than himself, but he did reveal that there was one member of this team that was essential to their success in Iran: artificial intelligence.
“AI helped us a lot,” Geller said, joking that the name of one of his partners in this endeavor was AI.
“I think that Israel was so advanced with the AI department decades ago that this is why we're winning every war.”
This is not the first time Geller has taken credit for protecting Israel through the use of psychic abilities. In 2024, he claimed to have been involved with stopping Iranian missiles and drones from striking Israel.
However, Geller said that even without their help, Israel still was a force to be reckoned with.
“We have the best soldiers and pilots and navy in the world, the best commandos in the world. We have Sayeret Matkal, we have the Mossad,” he said. “With all that combined, nobody can beat Israel. And we have the help of God.”
At the conclusion of this interview with Geller, he mentioned that a missile was fired by the Houthis in Yemen at Israel, specifically heading for the Tel Aviv area, which would get sirens as a result. Minutes later, those sirens occurred, indicating that a missile was en route.
“I’m going to go do something about the missile,” Geller said right before he hung up.